Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statue of the Nurse Sitsnefru
Description
Gabbro or diabase, paint
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 statue depicting an Egyptian figure with a wig and inscriptions on the lap.
This artifact is a seated statue of a figure wearing a traditional Egyptian wig, typical of statuary from ancient Egypt. The figure is seated with one hand across the chest and the other resting on the knee. Notable features include detailed carvings of inscriptions on the figure's lap, which are hieroglyphic in nature. The statue's style is indicative of the typical artistic conventions found in Egyptian art.
royal
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
Ankh ×2
Djed
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116249003 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 18.2.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544176 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.