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 earthen figurine depicting a simplified human face.
This artifact is a small, hand-molded figurine made from earth or clay, featuring a crudely shaped face. The composition is minimalistic, with basic indentations to represent eyes and a mouth. The overall style is simplistic, indicative of early craft techniques. The surface shows signs of age and wear, suggesting it is an ancient piece.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
earthclay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281395 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.89 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546372 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.