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

Facsimile Painting of an Alabaster Statuette

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

Description

Water color on paper

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 painted/drawn depiction of a standing ancient Egyptian male statue holding a staff and wearing a tripartite/arched wig and a pleated kilt.

The image shows a monochrome/gray-colored figure of a standing Egyptian statuette in profile facing left. The figure wears an elaborate wig with a textured headdress and a broad collar around the neck. One arm is held forward across the torso, with an object resembling a staff or scepter in the hands; the other arm rests lower near the body. The lower body is covered by a pleated kilt with belt and skirt folds. The statue stands on a rectangular plinth. No readable hieroglyphs, cartouches, or inscriptions are visible on the plinth, base, or body in the provided image. The museum catalogue describes the object as a facsimile painting on paper; the image appears consistent with a photographed artwork/documentation rather than a three-dimensional original statuette, and no clear contradictions are evident from the visible content.

religious Catalogue ground truth: Twentieth Century facsimile painting; depicts an original New Kingdom alabaster statuette (exact reign unknown). modern_reproduction
Deities unknown
Materials water color on paper (per catalogue; not independently confirmable from image)

Connections

Royals Horemheb
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