Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Ibis
Description
Cupreous metal, wood
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 bronze figurine of an ibis mounted on a wooden base.
This artifact is a bronze representation of an ibis, an animal sacred to Thoth, the ancient Egyptian deity associated with wisdom and writing. The figure displays a patina indicating age, with the characteristic curved beak and long legs of the ibis stylized in a simplistic form. The artifact is mounted on a modern wooden base, likely for display purposes.
decorative
Ptolemaic
good
Deities
Thoth
Materials
bronzewood
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