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

Seated figure of Amun

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Description

Limestone

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 statue depicting an ancient Egyptian deity seated on a throne.

The artifact is a small, carved statue representing an Egyptian deity, possibly Osiris, seated on a throne. The figure wears a headdress and a false beard, characteristic of divine representations in Egyptian art. The surface appears smooth with well-defined features, suggesting skilled craftsmanship.

religious New Kingdom good
Deities Osiris
Materials stone

Connections

Deities OsirisAmun
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116408966 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 2021.41.165 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 329960 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • 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.
  • 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.