Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Head and chest of a shabti figure
Description
Steatite or serpentinite
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 bust depicting a human head with stylized ears or headdress.
The artifact is a stone bust featuring a human head with a prominent stylistic depiction, possibly encompassing exaggerated ears or a headdress. The sculpture appears to show simplified facial features with a smooth surface, indicative of sculptural practices in ancient Egyptian art. The bust appears to be mounted on a modern base.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408082 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.7 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329774 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.