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.
A small rectangular artifact with a roughly sketched human face and red painted markings.
This artifact is a roughly rectangular piece of mud or clay with a rudimentary human face sculpted at the top. Below the face, there are red painted markings which appear to be some form of symbols or script. The piece shows significant wear and deterioration, indicating it is quite old. It has a simple, utilitarian style with limited artistic detailing, suggesting it might have been a common or personal item.
decorative
unknown
poor
Materials
clay
Signs
unknown
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281406 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.85 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546368 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.