Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Magical Figure

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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 fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief showing faint carvings.

The artifact is a roughly textured fragment of carved stone, likely part of a larger relief. The remaining features are heavily eroded, with the central portion showing slight raised lines indicative of faint carvings, possibly hieroglyphs. The surface is uneven with a brownish hue, and no distinct figures are recognizable.

unclear unknown fragmentary
Materials stone

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281242 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 33.1.138 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546420 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.