Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Standing statue of Mitry's wife

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Description

Acacia, paint (pink and white gesso layers), gesso

AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06

Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Wooden statue of a standing woman with short hair.

The image depicts a wooden statue of a woman standing upright with arms by her sides. The statue shows stylized and simplified anatomical features, typical of ancient Egyptian art. The figure wears a closely fitted garment, and the carving exhibits a sense of symmetry and balance.

decorative Middle Kingdom good
Materials wood

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Materials Wood

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116252408 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.2.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 543874 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.