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 clay plaque with a raised design, possibly a symbol or hieroglyph.
The artifact is a rectangular clay plaque, showing a raised, circular design at the top. The surface appears rough and some areas show signs of wear and chipping. The object seems to have a simplistic appearance without any intricate carvings, indicating that it might have served a functional or symbolic purpose. There are faint traces of red pigment on its surface, suggesting it may have been painted.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281363 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.111 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546393 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.