Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Ibis
Description
Wood, gesso, linen, paint, bronze, glass (eyes)
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 sculpture of an ibis with a dark head and a weathered body.
The artifact is a three-dimensional representation of an ibis, a bird sacred to the ancient Egyptians. The sculpture features an elongated, curved beak and a polished dark head, while the body displays a weathered texture suggestive of age. Mounted on a simple base, the artifact combines naturalistic animal depiction with stylized features.
decorative
unknown
good
Deities
Thoth
Materials
woodmetal
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116282213 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 53.185a tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546053 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.