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 clay stela featuring a weathered face above faint inscriptions.

The artifact is a small, clay stela with a carved face in its upper portion. The features of the face are eroded but still discernible. Below the face, there are traces of red pigment marks, indicating some form of inscription or decoration. The clay surface is cracked and fragmentary, indicative of age and exposure to elements.

funerary unknown fragmentary
Materials clay

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Clay

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281372 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 33.1.102 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546385 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.