Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Elephant Figurine
Description
Pottery (Nile clay)
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, roughly sculpted clay figure resembling an animal.
This artifact is a simplistic and abstract clay figurine, possibly representing an animal such as an elephant or a similarly shaped creature. The sculpture is heavily worn, with minimal distinct features, suggesting age or exposure to the elements. Its creation style appears rudimentary, indicative of early artistic design.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
clay
Connections
Materials
Clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116279833 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 07.228.74 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547205 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.