Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Figurine of a jerboa
Description
Faience, painted white
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 faience artifact shaped like a hedgehog.
The artifact is a small, three-dimensional figure crafted from faience, representing a hedgehog. It is roughly textured and decorated with black and brown spots to mimic the animal's natural appearance. The overall style is simplistic, yet it captures the hedgehog's distinctive shape and features.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245704 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.214 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545043 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.