Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief with a head of a Nubian
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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- 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.
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