Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Large Seated Statue of Hatshepsut
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
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.