Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Two hippopotami figurine
Description
Limestone, red paint
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.
Small limestone sculpture depicting two hippos in a resting pose.
The artifact is a small limestone sculpture showing two hippopotamuses in a resting position. It is carved with minimal detailing, focusing on the rounded forms of the animals. The style is simplistic but captures the essence of the creatures, with traces of red pigment indicating decorative elements.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280826 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.383 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546721 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.