Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Magic Wand
Description
Hippopotamus ivory
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 carved ivory tusk-shaped object with intricate engravings.
The artifact is a tusk-shaped ivory object displaying detailed carvings across its surface. The engravings appear to be intricate and extensive, depicting what might be complex patterns or possibly hunting scenes, typical of certain decorative styles in ancient Egyptian artifacts. The object shows some signs of cracking and wear, indicating its antiquity.
decorative
unclear
fragmentary
Materials
ivory
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248169 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.153 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544247 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.
- 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.