Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Hairpin with a Figure of a Hippopotamus
Description
Bone
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 carved wand or staff finial depicting a hand holding a symbolic object.
The artifact is a carved object resembling the finial of a wand or staff. It features a stylized hand grasping an emblematic item, possibly representing a deity's hand or a symbol of power. The carving style is simplistic yet expressive, with smooth lines and a polished finish. The object has a conical base, suggesting it was attached to a larger item.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243793 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 07.228.165 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545537 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.