Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Figure of a Woman of Nubian Descent
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 small, intricately carved wooden figure of an ancient Egyptian individual.
The artifact depicts a wooden statue of an individual with a detailed and weathered surface. The figure is missing arms and part of its dress and has a simplistic hairstyle. The craftsmanship reflects a traditional Egyptian style with geometric patterns on the garment, although it's fragmentary. The wood appears aged, suggesting significant antiquity.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248239 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.3.231 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544218 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.