Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Magical Figure
Description
Clay (unfired)
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.
The artifact is a small stele with worn surface and features.
This is a fragment of an ancient Egyptian stele, with a roughly rectangular shape. The surface is heavily weathered, with cracks visible throughout the piece. Faint traces of red pigment suggest past decorative elements, though details are largely obscured. The lack of clear inscriptions or figures makes precise identification challenging.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247977 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.103 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544343 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.