Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of Goddess Anuqet
Description
Steatite
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 small Egyptian artifact depicting the head of a deity wearing an ornate headdress.
The artifact shows a detailed representation of an Egyptian deity's head, featuring a tall and intricately carved headdress that likely symbolizes vegetation or papyrus. The style suggests traditional iconography, with carved details emphasizing the deity's features. The artifact is made of a dark material, possibly bronze or stone, and demonstrates expert craftsmanship typical of ancient Egyptian religious artifacts.
religious
unknown
excellent
Deities
unknown
Materials
bronzestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235372 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.99.58 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545925 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.