Ptah
Description
Statuette, Ptah. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 664–30 B.C. Cupreous metal. H. 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); W. 2.5 cm (1 in.); D. 2.1 cm (13/16 in.) H. (with tang): 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889.
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.
Bronze/cupreous metal standing male figure shown from head to feet, holding one hand to the chest and the other across the torso, with a short striated base and head/wig detail.
The object is a small standing statuette in a dark greenish patinated cupreous metal. The figure wears a tripartite wig or close-fitting headdress and a tight garment that falls in a vertical form down the body. The figure’s left hand is raised to the chest holding a small implement or possibly part of the clothing; the right arm hangs closer to the torso. The face is forward-facing with simplified facial features, and the feet rest on a narrow, rectangular-to-pedestal-like base. No clear inscriptions or legible hieroglyphs are visible on the photographed surface. The background is plain and the artifact is presented centered on a light-colored mount.
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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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