Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Magical Figure
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 terracotta figure of a face and upper body, heavily worn and fragmentary.
The artifact is a terracotta plaque depicting the face with a minimally defined body. The surface is rough with visible cracks and exhibits remnants of red pigment across its structure, suggesting it once held more color. The style is simplistic, possibly representing a deity or human figure in a stylized form. The worn condition and breakage over the face indicate it is very ancient.
religious
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
terracotta
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281317 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.123 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546405 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.