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 small, ancient Egyptian artifact depicting a human figure.

The artifact is a small, roughly rectangular piece with a raised depiction of what appears to be a human figure. The figure is crude in design, suggesting an early or simplistic style. There are traces of red pigment visible, indicating that the artifact may have been painted. The texture and condition suggest it is made from a type of stone or clay.

unclear unknown fragmentary
Materials stone

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281308 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 33.1.132 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546414 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.