Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture

Relief with a head of a Nubian

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Description

Stone

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 carved limestone relief depicting a profile face.

The artifact is a limestone relief showcasing the profile of a human face, possibly depicting a person of high status. The style is typical of Egyptian relief with a focus on distinct facial features, especially the eyes and lips. The background is rough, indicating it might be a fragment of a larger composition.

funerary New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials limestone

Connections

Materials Limestone
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