Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statue of man hoeing from tomb of Tjeteti
Description
Wood
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 ancient Egyptian wooden figure of a person engaged in agricultural activity.
The artifact is a painted wooden statue depicting a standing figure holding an agricultural tool, possibly a sickle. It portrays realistic proportion and stance, emphasizing the practical aspects of daily life in ancient Egypt. The paint is faded, suggesting age, and the simple base indicates it might have been part of a larger set or model.
daily life
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116275198 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.2.10 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548485 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.