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 carved stone stela with a roughly hewn face depicted at the top.
The artifact is a stone stela carved with a simplistic human face at the top. The carving style is primitive, with basic facial features etched into the stone. The stela appears to be worn and the surface is rough, suggesting significant age. There are traces of red pigment visible on the lower portion, indicating it might have been painted at one time.
religious
Predynastic
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281315 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.125 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546407 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.