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 relief of a crudely-made human face on a rectangular plaque.

The artifact is a rectangular clay or stone plaque depicting a simplistic human face. The face is roughly carved or molded, lacking detailed features. The surrounding area appears roughly textured, and there are traces of reddish pigment suggesting some decorative elements. The object's style is primitive, and its composition suggests it might have been used for votive or decorative purposes.

decorative unknown fragmentary
Materials clay

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Clay

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281375 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 33.1.101 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546384 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.