Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Headless statue of Babaef as younger man
Description
Limestone
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 headless limestone statue of a male figure wearing a short kilt.
This artifact is a limestone statue depicting a male figure standing upright. The figure is missing its head, and it wears a pleated short kilt. The style is indicative of Egyptian sculpture with an emphasis on idealized anatomy and posture. The statue shows slight wear but retains its detailed carving on the kilt.
royal
Old Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243275 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 64.66.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545825 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.
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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.