Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Figurine of a Pygmy Dance Leader
Description
Ivory
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 small carved figure of a standing dwarf with detailed facial features.
The artifact is a small, intricately carved figure of a dwarf standing upright on a rectangular base. The figure has well-defined facial features, including large ears and a pronounced smile, typical of depictions of the dwarf deity Bes. The carving appears to be made from ivory, displaying a smooth surface with some age-related wear.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Bes
Materials
ivory
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281285 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 34.1.130 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546440 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.
- 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.