Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Figure of a woman
Description
Wood, paint
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 wooden female statuette from ancient Egypt.
This artifact is a slender, elongated wooden statuette depicting a nude female figure. The statue exhibits a smooth, polished surface and subtle detailing, characteristic of Egyptian artistry. Notable features include a simplistic, stylized facial expression and a short hairstyle. The composition reflects an appreciation for elegance and proportion, commonly seen in Egyptian representations of women.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
wood
Connections
Materials
Wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116275195 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 58.125.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548486 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.