Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · stela
Baboon holding an inscribed stela dedicated to Iretherukhef
Description
Copper alloy
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.
Ancient Egyptian sculpture of a baboon seated before a stele with inscriptions.
The artifact is a bronze sculpture depicting a baboon, commonly associated with the god Thoth, seated before a stele. The stele may bear hieroglyphic inscriptions, though the details are weathered. The sculpture features a verdigris patina, indicative of its age, and is mounted on a modern base to aid in display.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Thoth
Materials
bronze
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