Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Block statue of Minhotep
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 kneeling statue depicting a seated human figure with hieroglyphs on the front.
The artifact is a stone statue portraying a kneeling human figure with crossed arms, typically associated with ancient Egyptian statuary art. It features a frontal panel with vertical hieroglyphic inscriptions. The statue showcases a detailed depiction of facial features and hair, suggesting a formal style. The surface appears well-preserved with minor erosion expected for its age.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
unknown ×10
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280930 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.227 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546660 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.