Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of an Official
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 an ancient Egyptian figure with a stylized wig.
The image depicts a carved stone head of an ancient Egyptian figure, likely representing a high-status individual. The sculpture exhibits classical Egyptian artistry with a stylized, symmetrical wig and defined facial features. The surface shows signs of age, with some smoothing and wear, consistent with other artifacts from ancient Egypt.
royal
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243187 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.99.27 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545897 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.