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 stela with a worn surface and faint inscriptions.
This artifact is a rectangular stela with a rounded top featuring a relief of a human head. The surface shows significant wear, suggesting age and possible exposure to elements. Red pigment traces are visible, indicating it might have been painted originally. The rough texture and the remnants of inscriptions suggest it could have served a votive or memorial purpose.
funerary
unclear
poor
Materials
limestone
Signs
unknown
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281376 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.99 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546382 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.