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Seated figure of Amun

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Description

Seated, Amun. Third Intermediate Period or Saite Period, Dynasty 22–26, First half of First Millennium B.C. Limestone. H. 7.3 × W. 2.5 × D. 4.2 cm (2 7/8 × 1 × 1 5/8 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020.

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.

A small seated Egyptian deity-like figure carved in stone, shown frontally with a wig/head covering and a broad collar, hands resting on the lap.

The artifact depicts a seated figure standing on a rectangular base. The head is frontal with a striated wig or head covering and a simplified face with painted or incised features. The figure wears a wide, beaded broad collar and a tightly fitting garment/tunic with vertical detailing at the chest and abdomen. The arms are held forward with hands resting on or near the lap. The posture and iconography suggest a divine statue; however, the image does not clearly preserve or display identifying inscriptions or a visible ram/other specific attributes that would unambiguously confirm the deity as Amun. No legible hieroglyphic text is visible, and there are no clearly readable cartouches. The base appears to be a different stone (or differently finished) than the figure. Overall preservation is good enough to see key sculptural features, though finer details and potential inscriptions are not readable at this resolution.

religious Third Intermediate Period or Saite Period (per catalogue; not independently verifiable from the image) good
Deities Amun (catalogue subject; not uniquely confirmable from image)
Materials limestone (catalogue)stone base (material type not independently confirmed)

Connections

Deities Amun
Materials Limestone

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.