Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Hippopotamus
Description
Faience
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 limestone sculpture of a recumbent calf.
The artifact is a small limestone sculpture depicting a recumbent calf. It is stylistically simple, with smooth, rounded contours and minimal detailing. The wear on the surface suggests age, and the carving emphasizes natural form over intricate detailing.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280859 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.199 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546695 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.