Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Female figure
Description
Limestone, 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 statue depicting a woman holding a child.
The artifact is a wooden statue featuring a woman standing and holding a small child in her arms. The style is simplistic with minimal detailing, characteristic of certain representations in ancient Egyptian art. The figure wears a plain wig, and the child is wrapped in a cloth and painted in a reddish hue, signifying possibly an important person or deity. The statue gives emphasis on the maternal aspect, common in Egyptian representations of nurturers or goddesses.
religious
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
wood
Connections
Materials
Wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248228 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.2.34 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544223 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.