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

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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 ancient Egyptian stela with traces of red pigment.

The artifact is a fragmentary piece of an ancient Egyptian stela, likely made from limestone. It exhibits traces of red pigment, indicating it may have been painted or inscribed with figural representations or symbols. The surface is worn and the top section is rounded, characteristic of stela forms used for various purposes, including religious and funerary contexts.

unclear unknown fragmentary
Materials limestone

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281342 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 33.1.122 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546404 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.