Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Partial Statuette of a Hippo Goddess
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.
A small blue faience figurine of an Egyptian deity standing on a base.
The artifact is a faience figurine depicting an ancient Egyptian deity, possibly a protective god or goddess, due to the amuletic nature typical of such items. The figure is shown in a standing position with minimalistic detailing often seen in smaller faience objects. The glossy turquoise color is characteristic of faience and suggests the piece was intended for adornment or offering.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
unknown
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408254 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.29 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329794 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.