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 worn clay tablet or stela with a roughly modeled face.

The artifact appears to be a clay stela with a crudely modeled human face at the top portion. The surface is eroded and lacks detailed carving, suggesting it might have served a basic or symbolic function. The material seems to be unfired or low-fired clay, typical of less durable items. The face is not well-defined, lacking clear attributes or inscriptions, which might indicate a less formal or expressive purpose.

unclear unknown poor
Materials clay

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Clay

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281380 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 33.1.96 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546379 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.