Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Hippopotamus figurine
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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 sculpture of a hippopotamus.
The image shows a small, carved statue of a hippopotamus. The sculpture is sleek with minimal detailing, suggesting a simple yet stylized representation common in Egyptian art. The artifact appears to have a smooth finish, and its style is characteristic of symbolic and decorative objects.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
excellent
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
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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.