Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Jerboa figurine
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 ancient Egyptian artifact of a hippopotamus figurine.
The artifact is a small figurine depicting a hippopotamus, crafted from a white material likely to be faience. It features minimalistic but distinctive detailing, with outlined features likely painted in black. The figurine appears stylistically consistent with faience objects which were popular during multiple periods in Egyptian history.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251866 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.900 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544081 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.