Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Head from a figure of Osiris
Description
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 carved stone head depicting a figure wearing an elaborate headdress.
The artifact is a sculpted stone head featuring a finely carved face with distinct features and an elaborate headdress indicative of divine or royal significance. The style appears symmetrical with detailed craftsmanship on the headdress, which includes a stylized uraeus (cobra symbol) suggesting protective royal or divine connotations.
royal
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Osiris
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408043 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329769 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.