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 fragment of an ancient Egyptian stela displaying faded hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a small fragment of a stela made from a stone-like material. It features several faded hieroglyphic symbols in red pigment. The top section is rounded, typical of many stelas, and a raised circular area is apparent near the top, possibly indicating the remains of a more detailed relief. The composition suggests it might have been part of a larger decorative or sacred text.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Signs
unknown
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281313 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.127 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546409 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.
- 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.