Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Monkey
Description
Faience, Paste
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 faience figure of a baboon seated with its hands raised to its mouth.
The artifact is a faience sculpture depicting a baboon, seated on a rectangular base. The figure exhibits a smooth surface with remnants of glazed texture, characteristic of Egyptian faience craftsmanship. Its posture, with hands covering the mouth, implies a ritualistic or symbolic purpose, commonly found in ancient Egyptian art.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280860 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.186 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546690 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.
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