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.
An ancient Egyptian artifact with a roughly carved face on the upper section.
The artifact appears to be a stela made of a coarse material, likely limestone, featuring a relief of a face carved in a simplistic style. The face has a prominent outline but lacks detailed features, reflecting a possibly worn or unfinished state. Below the face, the surface is rough and may have remnants of red pigment, suggesting prior decoration or text.
funerary
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281377 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.98 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546381 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.