Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Figure of a Shrew
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 figurine depicting an animal resembling a shrew or similar creature.
This artifact is a bronze figurine, sculpted to represent an animal, possibly a shrew, notable for its elongated snout and small legs. The figure is mounted on a rectangular base. The piece exhibits a green patina typical of aged bronze, suggesting oxidation over time. Its style is simplistic, focusing on basic contours and minimal detail, characteristic of representations of animals in ancient Egyptian contexts.
decorative
Late Period
good
Materials
bronze
Connections
Materials
Bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116249884 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 04.2.465 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544116 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.