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.
The artifact is a small, weathered stone stele with faint carvings.
The object appears to be a simple, roughly rectangular stone stele, possibly used for religious or funerary purposes. Its surface is heavily eroded, making it difficult to discern any specific details or inscriptions. There are traces of red pigment, suggesting it may have been painted at some point. Its size and form suggest it was a portable object, possibly used for personal devotion or as a household shrine.
unclear
unknown
poor
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281311 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.129 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546411 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.