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, roughly shaped artifact with a face resembling a head and faded painted details.
The artifact appears to be a sculptural representation with a coarse texture and a simplistic facial depiction. It is likely a fragment showing an upper body or head, with faded red coloration suggesting decorative or symbolic painting. The style is rather primitive, lacking detailed realism, suggesting an early artistic period or a folk piece.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281393 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.90 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546373 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.