Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statue of the Vizier Iuy
Description
Wood
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 wooden statue depicting a standing male figure, possibly a priest or official.
The artifact is a life-sized wooden statue featuring a standing male figure. It is crafted in a stylized form with minimalistic facial features and a body wrapped in a long garment. The hands hang by the sides, and the figure stands on a base. The statue shows signs of aging and some wear but retains a significant portion of its original form.
unclear
Middle Kingdom
good
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)
About this record's data
- 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.