Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statuette of cat
Description
Marble
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 seated cat.
The artifact is a small, carved stone statuette of a seated cat, suggesting a representation of the cat's sacred or revered status in ancient Egypt. The style is simplified with minimal detailing. The cat sits upright, placed on a base, indicating its function as a votive offering or decorative object.
decorative
Ptolemaic
good
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414623 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 42.5.20 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546190 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.
- 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.