Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
High Priest of Ptah or Crown Prince
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.
Head of a statue depicting a male figure with detailed headdress.
This is a sculpted head from an ancient Egyptian statue, featuring a male face with distinct almond-shaped eyes and a detailed, patterned headdress. The material appears to be dark-colored stone, possibly granite or basalt. The sculpture shows signs of wear, particularly on the facial features, indicating age and weathering.
royal
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414479 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.99.64 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545931 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.