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Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I

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Description

Sandstone, paint

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 fragmentary sculpture of a human face, with remnants of red paint.

This artifact is a fragment of a sculpted face, showcasing detailed craftsmanship with attention to the features and proportions of the human face. The red paint remnants suggest it was once brightly colored. The style is indicative of royal or religious artwork, though the piece is incomplete.

royal New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials limestone

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q29385794 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.3.30a tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544453 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.