Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Standing statue of Mitry's wife
Description
Acacia, gesso, paint
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.
A wooden statue of a standing woman with a wig, likely from ancient Egypt.
This artifact is a wooden statue depicting a standing woman with arms by her sides. The statue features a traditional Egyptian wig and is finely crafted with attention to bodily proportions. The surface of the wood shows significant wear, indicating its antiquity. The statue likely served a funerary or religious purpose, common in Egyptian artistry.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
wood
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