Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statue of an asymmetrically seated man
Description
Yellow limonite (G.L.Finlay)
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 seated male figure with a serene expression, carved from stone.
The artifact depicts a male figure seated in a relaxed pose with one leg bent. The figure is sculpted from stone with detailed facial features and pronounced musculature. The hair is styled in a traditional Egyptian manner, suggesting a period-specific portrayal. The artifact has a smooth surface, with attention to anatomical details such as the hands and the position of the feet.
decorative
Old Kingdom
excellent
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116249012 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.76 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544175 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.