Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Upper part of a statue of Iqer
Description
Limestone with traces of color
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 limestone bust of a figure with crossed arms and a partially damaged face.
The artifact is a limestone bust depicting an individual in a traditional pose with arms crossed over the chest. The sculpture shows stylistic features consistent with Old Kingdom art, including a focus on sturdy, geometric forms and a sense of permanence and stability. The facial features are finely crafted, though partially damaged, and the hair is styled in a distinct manner with traces of blue pigment.
funerary
Old Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235431 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.1393 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544172 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.