Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statuette of an animal symbolizing Re
Description
Cupreous metal
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.
Bronze statue of a bear-like figure wearing a sun disk.
The statue depicts a bear-like figure standing upright, its arms raised in a gesture possibly indicative of worship or supplication. On its head is a sun disk with a uraeus, which are often associated with deities. The object is crafted from bronze and stands on a square base. The surface is patinated, suggesting the passage of time, with visible inscriptions on its body.
religious
Late Period
good
Materials
bronze
Signs
Ankh
Uraeus
Connections
Materials
Bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251830 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 23.6.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544088 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.