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

High Priest of Ptah or Crown Prince

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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

Connections

Deities Ptah
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.