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

Upper Half of a Female Figurine

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Description

Pottery

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.

An ancient Egyptian figurine depicting a stylized female form with prominent features.

The figurine is molded from clay, showcasing a stylized and abstracted female form. It features prominent markings intended to represent adornments or clothing, with zigzag patterns and circular indentations. The simplistic style suggests it may belong to an earlier period or reflect a specific cultural or ritualistic purpose.

unclear Predynastic fragmentary
Materials clay

Connections

Materials Clay

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116413677 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 17.6.74 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544812 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.
  • 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.