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, fragmented terracotta amulet with faded red markings.
The artifact appears to be a fragment of a terracotta amulet, rectangular in shape. It shows signs of weathering and erosion, with remnants of red pigmentation visible across its surface. The style is simplistic, lacking detailed features, which may suggest a utilitarian or personal devotional purpose.
religious
unclear
fragmentary
Materials
terracotta
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281371 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.104 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546386 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.