Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Case for a Goose
Description
Wood, stucco, bitumen
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.
Two headless limestone statues with an armless torso and leg detail.
The image depicts two ancient Egyptian statues carved from limestone. They are headless and armless, focusing on the torso and legs. The figures show worn surfaces with visible signs of erosion or weathering, characteristic of many ancient artifacts. The style appears simplistic, emphasizing body shape rather than intricate detail. The composition suggests they may have originally been part of a larger collection of similar figures possibly used for funerary or ritual purposes.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243625 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 19.3.281a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545677 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).
- 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.