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 fragmentary ancient Egyptian artifact with a carved relief of a face.

The artifact is a fragment of ancient Egyptian origin, featuring a carved relief of a face. The style is simplistic and the face has rounded features typical of certain periods of Egyptian art. The color appears faded with remnants of red pigmentation visible, indicating possible original decorative elements. The artifact is composed of a stone material and exhibits signs of weathering and damage.

funerary Middle Kingdom fragmentary
Materials limestone

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281249 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 33.1.134 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546416 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.