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 small, simple Egyptian stela with a cartouche visible.

The artifact is a roughly shaped stela, likely made of limestone, with a cartouche at the top. It appears to have some remaining traces of red paint. The style is minimalistic, typical of smaller, personal stelae used in funerary or votive contexts. The surface is rough and suggests wear and age, implying it might have been exposed to the elements or not finely finished.

funerary unclear fragmentary
Royals unclear
Materials limestone
Signs cartouche

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281387 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 33.1.92 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546375 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.