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.
Fragmentary clay artifact with raised relief of a beetle.
The artifact is a fragment of a larger piece, possibly depicting a scarab beetle in raised relief. The surface shows traces of red pigment, suggesting it was once painted. The style is simplistic, likely utilitarian rather than decorative, with worn edges indicating age.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281245 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.136 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546418 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.