Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statuette of lion holding a Nubian captive
Description
Wood
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 depicting a lion-headed deity holding a crouching man.
The artifact is a small wooden figure showcasing a lion-headed deity, possibly the goddess Sekhmet, gripping a small human figure in a protective or dominant stance. The style is typical of Egyptian art with detailed carvings that give life to the facial expressions and the body's musculature. The sculpture's posture and proportion show advanced craftsmanship dating to a period where meticulous work on small sculptures was common.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Sekhmet
Materials
wood
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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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