WALTERS-EG
Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · statue
Man Standing
Description
<p>This limestone statuette has been carved in the round. It depicts a man standing with a shaved head with a round top. He wears a short kilt. There is a stele at the back with an inscription. The piece is broken and repaired at the ankles and waist.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.391' rel='external'>Man Standing</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>
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/standing male figure sculpture (depicted as a man) shown in profile/three-quarter view with a bald head and simple facial features.
The image shows a stone sculpture of a male figure with a shaved/bald scalp and stylized facial features. The figure stands or sits upright with arms close to the body. The lower body and legs are carved with simplified linear detailing, and there is a defined base attached to the figure. No clear hieroglyphic inscription, cartouche, or identifying text is visible on the provided view. The catalogue states limestone; the stone surface appears light gray and weathered, consistent with limestone, and there is no visible material that would contradict that. No explicit attributes linking the figure to a specific deity are clearly identifiable from the single image.
royal
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Inscriptions (2)
Inscription #1
English description
[Inscription, in vertical row on rear pillar and on base] An offering which the king gives
Inscription #2
English description
[to] Osiris, lord of Abydos, that he may give mortuary offerings of oil and unguent, oxen and fowl, to ... the judge Mar (?)
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 22.391 tier-2
- Walters-id 26582 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Walters Art Museum (Egyptian).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.