Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Jerboa figurine
Description
Faience, blue
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 small faience figurine depicting an animal, possibly a frog.
The artifact is a faience figurine shaped like an animal, likely a frog, featuring a compact form and detailed markings painted on its surface. It has a smooth, glazed finish typical of faience work, with notable round, dark painted spots giving texture and pattern to the piece. The figurine's sculptural style suggests an attempt to capture the essence of the animal in a stylized manner.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280867 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.127 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546679 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.