Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Osiris-Iah
Description
Cupreous metal, precious metal leaf
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 bronze statue depicting an ancient Egyptian deity seated and holding a sceptre.
The artifact is a bronze statue showing a seated figure of an ancient Egyptian deity, characterized by a headdress featuring a sun disk surrounded by horns. The figure is holding a sceptre, suggesting its divine or royal significance. The craftsmanship and patina indicate its historical age.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Hathor
Materials
bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116275320 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1971.272.15 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548421 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.