Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Uraeus fitting from shrine
Description
Cupreous metal
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.
Small bronze statue of a deity with a solar disk on its head.
This artifact is a small bronze statue depicting a deity, likely associated with the sun, as indicated by the solar disk atop its head. The figure stands upright in a stylized form with minimal detailing, typical of later period Egyptian art which favored simplified outlines. The patina on the bronze suggests age, and the figure might have served a religious or protective function.
religious
Late Period
good
Deities
RaHorus
Materials
bronze
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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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