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 rustic clay stela with a faint, minimally detailed face and remnants of symbols.

The artifact appears to be a clay stela, roughly shaped and featuring a minimally detailed, raised face at the top. The surface is coarse, and remnants of red pigment suggest the presence of symbols or decoration, although the details are largely worn away. The simplistic style and lack of intricate detailing imply it may be an early or everyday artifact rather than one for royal or religious purposes.

unclear unknown poor
Materials clay

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Clay

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281401 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 33.1.87 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546370 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.