Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Child god in <em>nemes</em> and <em>hemhem</em> crown
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.
A small bronze statue of an Egyptian deity wearing an elaborate headdress.
The artifact is a bronze statue depicting an Egyptian deity, likely associated with fertility or creation, given the presence of the lotus flowers in the headdress. The figure stands upright with one finger to its mouth, a common pose for child deities. The style is typical of Late Period Egyptian bronzes, with attention to detail in the headdress and facial features. The figure wears a nemes headdress and sports a suspension loop at the back of the head, suggesting it was worn as an amulet or displayed.
religious
Late Period
excellent
Deities
Horus the Child (Harpokrates)
Materials
bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243264 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 64.77 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545838 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.