Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Taweret statuette
Description
Red jasper
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 statuette depicting a baboon, possibly representing the deity Thoth.
This is a small, carved statuette made from a reddish stone, depicting a seated baboon. The figure's head is notably weathered, though the shape indicates it represents a baboon, animals associated with the deity Thoth. The carving is simplistic with minimal detailing, likely focusing more on symbolic representation than realistic depiction.
religious
unknown
fragmentary
Deities
Thoth
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281867 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 41.160.138 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546151 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.