Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Magical Figure

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Description

Late Middle Kingdom–Second Intermediate Period, Dynasty 13–SIP, ca. 1802–1550 B.C. Clay (unfired). H. 6.3 cm (2 1/2 in.); W. 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.). From: west of tomb of Senwosretankh, surface deposit, Lisht South, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1932–33. Subject: Faces. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1933.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

The image shows a small, weathered, reddish-brown unglazed clay fragment with a rounded-oval profile; no clear carved figure or inscription is visible.

The object appears as a thick, irregularly edged clay piece (unfired/terracotta-like) photographed against a plain light-gray background. The surface is heavily eroded and stained, with no legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text discernible at this resolution. No distinct limbs, facial features, or iconographic elements can be confidently identified; therefore the advertised “Magical Figure” imagery is not directly visible in the provided view. The material texture suggests compacted clay with minor surface cracking and loss of detail.

unclear Late Middle Kingdom–Second Intermediate Period (per catalogue; not independently confirmable from the photo). fragmentary
Materials clay (unfired)

Connections

Found at Lisht
Materials Clay

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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  • 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.