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, ancient Egyptian stela with faint red inscriptions.
The artifact is a rectangular stela with a rough surface. It appears to be made of a sand-colored stone, possibly limestone, with traces of red pigment visible on its surface. The inscriptions are faint and difficult to discern, suggesting wear or age. The top of the stela has a worn, rounded shape, possibly indicating it was once more elaborately decorated.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281370 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.105 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546387 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.