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 ancient Egyptian clay tablet with illegible inscriptions.
The artifact is a clay tablet, possibly used for writing or as a label. It is broken into several pieces with evidence of weathering and surface erosion. The color suggests it may have been originally fired, but it has become brittle and fragmented over time. There appear to be faint traces of text or symbols, but they are mostly illegible due to the condition.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281238 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.139 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546421 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.