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 sculpture of a baboon figure.
The artifact is a small statue depicting a baboon, crafted from stone. The surface shows signs of wear and age, with some visible greenish patination indicative of copper-based materials. The carving is simplistic but captures the distinct features of a baboon, including a rounded head and pronounced snout. The style suggests functionality possibly linked to religious or symbolic significance.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stonecopper-based patina
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116249182 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 08.200.33 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544165 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.