Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of Amenhotep II
Description
Granodiorite
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 of a pharaoh with distinct headdress.
The image depicts a fragmentary stone head of a pharaoh, recognizable by the traditional nemes headdress and uraeus on the forehead. The sculpture is stylized with smooth features typical of royal portraits, and the serene expression suggests a representation intended for reverence or commemoration. The artifact shows signs of wear typical of ancient stone sculptures.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243217 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.99.20 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545891 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.