Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Upper Part of the Head of a Man
Description
Basalt or graywacke
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 fragment of an ancient Egyptian sculpture depicting a human face.
This artifact is a fragment of a sculpture showing part of a human face with prominent eyes. The style appears minimalistic, with smooth surfaces and no elaborate detailing, indicating a possibly early period of Egyptian art or deliberate stylistic simplicity. The material seems to be stone, with visible signs of wear and damage, particularly around the edges.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
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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.