Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Ptah-Sokar-Osiris Figure of Pakherenkhonsu

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Description

Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 25 (Kushite), ca. 750–700 B.C. Wood, gesso, paint. H. 44 × W. 9 × D. 22 cm (17 5/16 × 3 9/16 × 8 11/16 in.). From: Tomb MMA 832 (H 3), Pit 1, Burial of Pakherenkhonsu, el-Khokha, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1914–15. Subject: Women, Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1928.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Painted wooden/ gessoed Egyptian funerary figure standing upright with a distinctive blue-green headdress and a black face. A short column of hieroglyphs is painted down the torso.

The image shows a small, front-facing, standing anthropomorphic figure with a dark/black-painted face, painted facial features, and a prominent, stylized headpiece. The top element has a bright turquoise/blue-green appearance with curved lobes rising upward, connected to a rounded orange-red band or disc just above the forehead. The torso is painted white, while the neck and upper body include black and gold/ochre accents. The figure wears a strap or collar-like element with an X-shaped pattern over the chest and a narrow gold border at the shoulders. Down the center of the torso, a vertical band of painted hieroglyphic signs is visible (exact text not fully legible at this resolution). The object rests on a white-painted rectangular base. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic script is visible. The catalogue title refers to a Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure of Pakherenkhonsu; the visible iconography suggests a composite funerary deity figure, but the specific deity name elements and the personal name are not clearly readable, so identification is limited to what is visually consistent with a painted Ptah-Sokar-Osiris-style figure.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (per catalogue; exact confirmation from image not possible) good
Deities Ptah-Sokar-Osiris (inferred from catalogue; not explicitly legible in image)
Royals Pakherenkhonsu (name not clearly legible in image)
Materials wood (implied by painted figure; base appears wood/covered)gesso/ground layer (white painted coating)paint (polychrome; turquoise/blue-green, red/orange, black, ochre/yellow)
Signs Vertical column of painted hieroglyphs (exact signs unclear) ×10

Connections

Found at el-Khokha

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116256480 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 28.3.48 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 550795 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.