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

Seated Statue of King Senwosret I

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Description

Greywacke

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 seated male figure statue is shown frontally, hands resting on the knees, wearing a short kilt and a broad collar.

The image presents a gray stone (grey-toned) seated statue, photographed straight-on. The figure sits upright on a rectangular base, with both legs drawn together. The hands rest on the upper thighs/knees area, and the torso is bare, covered only by a broad beaded collar and/or necklace elements around the chest. The lower body wears a short pleated kilt with vertical pleats falling to the base. No clear facial features, inscription bands, or legible hieroglyphs are visible in this crop; the upper head region is present but the details needed for a secure identification of the king’s name are not readable. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

royal Middle Kingdom (as catalogued) good
Materials stone (grey-toned; catalogue specifies greywacke)

Connections

Royals Senwosret I
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116235433 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 25.6 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544185 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • 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.
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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.