Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Miniature Sistrophorous Statue
Description
Greywacke
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 statue of a seated Egyptian figure holding a large hieroglyphic inscription.
The artifact is a small, detailed sculpture depicting a seated figure, likely an official or priest, as suggested by the attire and posture. The figure holds a large inscribed tablet in front, featuring prominent hieroglyphic symbols. Notable features include well-defined facial features and headdress, and the blocky, formal style typical of Egyptian statuary.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
ankh
was
djed
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116282137 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 54.28.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546054 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.