Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of Thutmose III
Description
Porphyritic diorite
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 sculpture of an Egyptian pharaoh with a uraeus on the headdress.
This artifact is a stone head sculpture depicting an Egyptian pharaoh. The figure wears a royal headdress adorned with a uraeus, symbolizing kingship and divine authority. The sculpture style suggests a New Kingdom period with realistic detailing of facial features. The head appears to be part of a larger statue originally.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243206 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.99.22 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545893 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.