Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Animal figure
Description
Mud, 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 small, abstract figurine with circular indentations.
The object is a small, abstract figurine, roughly cylindrical in shape with a distinct curve. It is covered in a series of small circular indentations, possibly intended as decorative features or symbols. The surface appears weathered, indicating some age. The figurine lacks identifiable features common to typical Egyptian portrayals of deities or humans, suggesting it might be a decorative or symbolic piece.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
stone
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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.
- 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.