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

Large Seated Statue of Hatshepsut

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Description

Granite

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 seated statue of a pharaoh wearing a nemes headdress.

The artifact is a large granite statue depicting a seated pharaoh, characterized by its distinctive nemes headdress. The statue exhibits typical royal attributes and styles, such as the pose and the royal attire. The pharaoh is seated rigidly on a throne, which shows signs of inscriptions or designs along its sides. The craftsmanship emphasizes proportion and detail, typical of royal statuary.

royal New Kingdom good
Materials granite

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Royals Hatshepsut
Materials Granite

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116275119 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 27.3.163 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548519 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.