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 carved artifact featuring a relief of a face and traces of red pigment.
The artifact is a carved stone featuring a roughly shaped relief of a human face. The material appears to be a weathered type of limestone, with visible signs of erosion or wear. There are traces of red pigment remaining on the surface, possibly indicating that the sculpture was originally painted. The style is simplistic and suggests a possibly ancient or worn representation, common in many Egyptian artifacts.
funerary
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281354 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.115 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546397 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.
- 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.