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

Thutmose III Offering

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Description

Diorite

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 headless kneeling statue holding a rectangular object.

The image depicts a dark stone statue of a kneeling figure, missing its head. The figure wears a detailed skirt and holds a rectangular object on its lap. The statue's style and posture suggest it was meant for a religious or ritual function, likely an offering bearer. Fine details in the garment and the overall high craftsmanship point to its significance.

religious New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials stone

Connections

Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116274817 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 23.2.34 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548637 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.