Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Upper half of a woman from a pair or group statue
Description
Granite (?)
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 stone head fragment of an ancient Egyptian statue, likely depicting a noble or high-ranking figure.
This artifact is a fragmentary stone bust featuring a detailed head with distinctively styled hair and large ears, suggesting the representation of a significant figure in Egyptian society. The carving indicates skilled craftsmanship, with attention to the symmetry and expression of the face, typical of the Middle to New Kingdom styles.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408028 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329768 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.