Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Head from a Statuette of Amenhotep III
Description
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 fragmentary stone head of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh.
The artifact is a fragmentary stone head, depicting the face of a pharaoh with a distinctive nemes headdress. The features are smooth and idealized, typical of royal sculpture, with remnants of a uraeus on the forehead. The surface is worn, showing signs of weathering and breakage along the edges.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414468 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.99.30 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545900 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.