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 wearing a detailed skirt with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
This artifact is a painted wooden statue of a standing man with a detailed skirt featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions. The statue exhibits naturalistic features with visible attention to anatomical details and a bright painted finish. The stylistic elements suggest craftsmanship typical of the period, and the base of the statue also carries inscriptions.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
woodpaint
Signs
Ankh
Wasserlinie ×3
Visible text
"unclear"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248265 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.176.59 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544204 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.