Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Bust of King Amenemhat III
Description
Granodiorite
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 stone bust of an Egyptian pharaoh with a nemes headdress.
The artifact is a stone bust depicting an Egyptian pharaoh wearing a nemes headdress. The head and upper torso are visible, with the pharaoh's facial features showing typical stylized abstraction. The piece exhibits damage, including a missing nose and other signs of wear.
royal
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243130 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 45.2.6 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545937 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.