Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Figurine of a recumbent calf
Description
Faience
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
Small faience figure of a reclining calf.
The artifact is a faience figure depicting a calf in a reclining position. The surface is glazed with a bluish-green hue typical of faience, showing wear that suggests aging. Notable features include the detailed modeling of the calf's head and ears, with areas where the glaze has been chipped away, revealing the underlying material. This figurine is representative of Egyptian decorative arts.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243221 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.99.12 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545885 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.