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Statue of the Vizier Iuy

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Description

Statue, Vizier Iuy. Second Intermediate Period, Late Dynasty 13-early Dynasty 17, ca. 1700 B.C. Wood. H. 89.5 cm (35 1/4 in.). From: Tomb of Iuy (MMA 61), On surface near tomb, Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1922–23. Subject: Men. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1923.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Full-length, standing male statue with arms at the sides, shown frontally against a plain background.

The image depicts a wooden, human-shaped Egyptian statue in a standing pose. The figure has a column-like torso, a narrow waist, and legs that end in simple, rounded feet. The head is small and elongated with a bald or tightly shaven hairstyle; the face details are worn. The statue is painted reddish-brown overall, with incised/painted body paneling lines running along the chest and down the abdomen and legs. The arms hang down at the sides, with the hands slightly separated from the body. There is no clearly visible inscription band, cartouche, or legible hieroglyphic text on the front in this view. No identifiable royal cartouches or names are visible. No deities are directly indicated (e.g., attributes, crowns, animal-headed forms) in the provided image.

royal Second Intermediate Period (per catalogue); exact sub-period/chronology unclear from image alone good
Materials wood

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Wood

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116248557 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 23.3.37 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544182 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.