Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) · other
Ptah-Sokar-Osiris box
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 statue of an ancient Egyptian deity with hieroglyphic inscriptions on the base.
The artifact is a statue representing an ancient Egyptian deity, possibly Horus, given the falcon head. It stands on a rectangular base that features a row of decorative hieroglyphs. The statue's style suggests a classical Egyptian approach, with a balance between stylization and detail, particularly in the depiction of clothing and feathers. The material appears to be painted limestone, showing a combination of colors that have survived over time.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Horus
Materials
limestone
Signs
reed leaf ×2
jet pillar
basket
Visible text
"Horus"
Connections
Found at
Akhmim (Khemmis, Panopolis)
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian).
- 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.