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

Magical Figure

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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 stone tablet with faded inscriptions and a carved face at the top.

The artifact is a rectangular stone tablet featuring a crudely carved facial image at the top. Below the face are faint traces of red pigment that suggest the presence of inscriptions. The carving style is simplistic, suggesting it may be from a less skilled or early period of craftsmanship. The surface shows wear and erosion, indicative of significant age or exposure to the elements.

funerary New Kingdom poor
Materials stone

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281314 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 33.1.126 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546408 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.