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

Statue of a courtier Ihy

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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 wooden statue of an Egyptian official or nobleman with a kilt.

This is a wooden statue depicting a standing male figure, likely an official or nobleman. The figure has a shoulder-length hair style and wears a kilt. The arms are positioned to suggest the figure might have been holding objects or performing an action. The wood shows signs of age, and the carving style is typical of Egyptian statuary with a focus on symmetry and proportion.

royal Middle Kingdom fragmentary
Materials wood

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Materials Wood

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116275132 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 27.9.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548490 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.