Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statuette of Merer
Description
Wood, paint Gesso
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 of a man with hieratic inscriptions on the skirt.
The artifact is a wooden statue depicting a man with a dark painted complexion and an Egyptian hairstyle. The statue's left arm is missing. The skirt of the figure features several columns of hieratic text, suggesting it may have had a ceremonial or religious function. The paint on the figure is worn, yet some details of the facial features and clothing remain visible.
decorative
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248276 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.176.57 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544202 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.