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 ancient Egyptian stela with a carved depiction of a face at the top.
This artifact is a small, roughly rectangular stela made of clay or a similar material, featuring a carved face at the top. The surface of the stela is rough, with remnants of red pigment visible, suggesting it might have been painted. The style is simplistic and possibly indicative of a funerary or votive offering.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
clay
Visible text
"unclear"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281379 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.97 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546380 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.