Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Frog on a lotus pad, perhaps a weight
Description
Bronze or copper alloy
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.
The artifact is a small statue of a frog or toad.
This small carved statue depicts a frog or toad, likely symbolic in nature. Its style is simple and lacks detailed ornamentation, suggesting a utilitarian or symbolic purpose rather than decorative. The sculpture is crafted to rest on a small base, with a stylized form capturing the essence of the creature.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251799 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1970.197 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544103 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.