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.
An ancient Egyptian artifact depicting a roughly carved face with red pigment traces.
The artifact is a stone slab with a carved face on the upper part. The face is roughly hewn, suggesting it may have been a part of a larger object or used for informal purposes. There are traces of red pigment beneath the face, possibly indicating the remnants of hieroglyphs or decorative painting. The style appears minimalistic and functional.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281403 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.86 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546369 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.