Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Crouching Cat Figurine
Description
Bronze
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 a crouching lioness.
This artifact is a small bronze sculpture of a lioness in a crouching position. The piece is well-formed, capturing the feline features accurately, with a focus on musculature and posture. Its surface has a dark patina, indicating age. The sculpture's minimalist base suggests it may have served as a decorative or religious object.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
bronze
Connections
Materials
Bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116249797 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.123.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544119 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.