Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Pedestal for a Miniature Statue

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Ivory

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.

An ancient Egyptian chair model carved from a light material.

This piece is a miniature model of an ancient Egyptian chair, with simple yet elegant carvings on its base. The chair is tall and slender with a curved backrest, indicative of stylized representations used in Egyptian art. The carvings on the front part of the chair suggest symbolic motifs, possibly hieroglyphic or decorative in nature.

decorative unknown good
Materials ivory

Connections

Materials Ivory

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116415483 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.8.222 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548447 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.