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

Osiride Figure of Kenamun

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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 statue of an ancient Egyptian figure with hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The artifact is a wooden statue depicting an Egyptian figure with a stylized wig. The statue features vertical hieroglyphic inscriptions on its front, indicating its possible funerary or religious significance. The craftsmanship and hieroglyphic style are characteristic of ancient Egyptian art.

funerary New Kingdom good
Materials wood
Signs ankh

Connections

Materials Wood

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116388904 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.5.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548585 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.