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 faience amulet depicting a stylized animal, possibly a hippopotamus.
This artifact is a small, well-crafted faience figure of an animal that resembles a stylized hippopotamus, a common symbol in ancient Egyptian culture. The surface shows some wear but retains a smooth finish. The artifact is predominantly beige with darker brown spots, showcasing the typical glazing process of faience objects. It appears to be handcrafted with attention to detail, especially in the facial features and body posture.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251856 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.901 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544082 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.