Ptah-Sokar-Osiris Figure of the Temple Musician Ihyt

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.

Painted gilded wooden figure set on a rectangular inscribed base, depicting a standing funerary/religious personification with a tall stylized crown/feathered emblem and a red-and-gold color scheme.

The image shows a standing, human-like Egyptian figure in profile/three-quarter view mounted on a rectangular base. The figure’s upper portion is painted gold for the face and torso, with red and patterned textile/pectorals across the chest and shoulders. A tall, vertically oriented head element with feather-like or ribbed elements rises above the head; below it are black and gold details resembling a crown/ritual headgear. The arms are held close to the body. Large red areas dominate the body, with decorative bands and small colored motifs. The base is rectangular and covered in dense painted hieroglyphic text in rows; additional decorative bands appear along the edges. No clear Greek/Coptic/Arabic script is visible. The inscription appears to be Egyptian hieroglyphs, though specific lines are not legible enough to transcribe accurately. Materials visible from the image include painted surfaces and what appears to be a gilded finish on the gold-painted elements. The catalogue description references a “Ptah-Sokar-Osiris Figure of the Temple Musician Ihyt”; the visible iconography (a combined, standing deity-like figure on an inscribed base) is consistent with a funerary/religious figure, but no unmistakable name-carto(u)ches or clearly readable identifiers for Ptah-Sokar-Osiris or Ihyt are legible in the provided image.