Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Sphinx-shaped foot of vessel
Description
Copper alloy
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 sphinx-like statue with a headdress and a broken back pillar.
The artifact is a small bronze statue depicting a sphinx-like creature with a human head and lion's body, adorned with a headdress. Notably, a broken pillar or structure is attached to its back, suggesting it was once part of a larger assembly. The style is typical of Egyptian representation of mythical beings.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
bronze
Connections
Materials
Bronze
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.