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

Upper part of a figure of a seated official

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Steatite or serpentinite

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 small dark-colored statue depicting a seated human figure on a wooden base.

The artifact is a compact stone statue with a dark hue, depicting a seated human figure, possibly male. The figure wears a headdress and has a serene expression distinct of Egyptian sculptural style with idealized features. The base appears modern, crafted from wood, contrasting the ancient-looking stone material used for the statue itself.

royal unknown good
Materials stonewood

Connections

Materials StoneWood
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  • 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.