Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Upper Half of a Hippo Goddess Presenting a Sa-sign
Description
Lapis lazuli
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 figurine representing a deity seated in squatting posture.
The artifact is a small blue figurine crafted from what appears to be faience or another ceramic material. It features a deity with distinct human-like upper body characteristics and animal-like facial features, sitting in squatting position on a tall pedestal. The craftsmanship is indicative of detailed attention to form and proportions while retaining a simplistic style typical of small devotional objects.
religious
unknown
good
Deities
Bes
Materials
faience
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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.
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