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

Magical Figure

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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 stela featuring a carved human face.

This artifact is a rectangular stela with a carved relief depicting a partial human face at the top. Below the face, faded red markings are visible, possibly ancient scripts or decorative elements. The stela appears heavily weathered, suggesting significant age or exposure to the elements.

funerary unknown poor
Materials limestone
Signs unknown

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281554 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 33.1.72 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546355 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.