Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Baboon
Description
Faience
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 faience figure depicting a baboon.
This artifact is a faience figurine depicting a baboon in a seated position. The figure shows a naturalistic representation with its detail and posture, highlighting the craftsmanship involved in creating such objects in ancient Egypt. The greenish glaze typical of faience is still visible, though much of it has worn away, exposing the base material underneath.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116249175 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 08.200.35 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544164 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.