Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Magical Figure
Description
Clay (unfired)
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.
Ancient Egyptian clay votive stela with visible remnants of painted decoration.
This small, rectangular clay stela features an eroded surface with faint, red pigmentation suggesting remnants of painted inscriptions or decoration. The top of the stela includes a roughly formed figure or symbol, which may represent a deity or protective image. The overall condition indicates significant weathering, with much of the original detail lost, reflecting an ancient artifact likely used for personal devotion.
religious
unknown
poor
Deities
possibly Wadjet
Materials
clay
Signs
possibly a cobra or uraeus
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281508 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.67 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546350 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.