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 small, ancient Egyptian hippopotamus figurine.
This is a carved hippopotamus figurine from ancient Egypt. The artifact appears to be made of a light-colored material, possibly limestone, with signs of wear and surface abrasions. It is a simplistic depiction with minimal detail, typical of smaller votive or symbolic objects from antiquity.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281798 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.11 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546220 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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