Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Magical Figure

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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.

A small ancient Egyptian artifact featuring a rough depiction of a human face.

The artifact appears to be a small clay or mud object with a roughly sculpted human face. The style is primitive, with minimal detail, suggesting it might be an early or rudimentary piece. The facial features are not clearly defined and the material appears to be unrefined. There are traces of red pigment visible beneath the facial depiction.

unclear unknown fragmentary
Materials clay

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Clay

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281494 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 33.1.70 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546353 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • 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.