Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statue of the military commander Amasis
Description
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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 fragment of a bust depicting a regal figure with a headdress.
The artifact is a fragmentary bust of an ancient Egyptian figure carved from dark stone. The figure wears a nemes headdress, suggesting royalty, and maintains a serene expression. The style is typical of royal portraiture, with smooth carving and idealized features. The back and base are missing, indicating damage or the piece being part of a larger statue.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389476 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.99.68 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545935 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.
- 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.