Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Ram head made for attachment to a barque
Description
Leaded bronze, precious metal leaf, copper alloy inlay in eye rims
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 bronze sculpture of an animal head, likely representing a ram or similar horned animal.
The artifact is a metal sculpture of an animal head, displaying a stylized and abstract form characteristic of Egyptian art. The surface of the sculpture shows a patina indicating age, with details like the curved horns and preserved facial features. Its simplicity and elegance suggest it could have served a symbolic or decorative purpose.
decorative
unclear
good
Materials
bronze
Connections
Materials
Bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243082 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 45.2.9 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545960 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.