Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statuette of Horus with a vessel
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 with a lioness head in a standing pose.
This artifact is a bronze statuette depicting a standing figure with a lioness head, indicative of goddess iconography. The pose is upright, with arms held forward in a traditional gesture. The statuette displays the characteristic style of ancient Egyptian religious artifacts, with a smooth surface and verdigris patina typical of aged bronze.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Sekhmet
Materials
bronze
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