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.
A fragmentary piece of pottery with red painted hieratic script.
The object is a fragmentary pottery sherd with an inscription in red paint, depicting ancient Egyptian hieratic script. The script is written in horizontal lines and displays a simple, functional style typical of utilitarian inscriptions rather than decorative or ritualistic text. The surface appears weathered, but the paint is relatively well-preserved. There are no figures or motifs, only script.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
pottery
Signs
unknown ×5
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281300 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.143 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546425 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.