Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Magical Figure

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Clay (unfired)

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 fragmentary stele with red painted inscriptions.

This artifact appears to be a broken fragment of a stele, showing rough stone surfaces with red painted hieroglyphic inscriptions. The style is consistent with Egyptian decorative steles, featuring a slightly convex top and visible cracking across the surface. The painting is faded but still discernible.

hieroglyphic only unknown fragmentary
Materials stone
Signs unknown ×3

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281343 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 33.1.121 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546403 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.