Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statuette of Merer
Description
Wood, 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 wooden figure of an Egyptian servant wearing a painted kilt.
The artifact is a painted wooden statuette depicting an Egyptian servant or official. The figure stands upright on a rectangular base, with detailed carvings that define facial features and hair. The kilt is painted with hieroglyphic symbols and is intricately designed, showing signs of color preservation.
daily life
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
woodpaint
Signs
unknown ×10
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248269 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.176.58 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544203 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.