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 mudbrick with a carved human face at the top and faint traces of red pigment.
The artifact is a mudbrick featuring a carved depiction of a human face in relief at the top portion. The face is roughly hewn, indicating a simplistic style. The surface shows remnants of red pigment, suggesting potential artistic or symbolic embellishments. The simplicity of the carving and the medium of mudbrick suggest it may have served a practical or decorative function, possibly a votive or burial marker.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
mudbrick
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281368 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.107 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546389 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.