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 fragmentary ancient Egyptian artifact with a carved face and traces of red pigment.
The artifact is a fragmentary piece of mud, possibly from a larger structure or object. It features a carved human face, which is partly worn and eroded, but still discernible. The red pigment traces suggest this was painted, likely to emphasize certain features. The style and material indicate it might have been part of a decorative or functional religious object.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
mud
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281312 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.128 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546410 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.