Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of a cow goddess
Description
Porphyritic 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.
A stone sculpture depicting the head of a bull with a solar disk between its horns.
This artifact is a stone representation of the Apis bull, featuring a stylized head with large, curved horns. Atop its head sits a solar disk, a common motif in Egyptian art symbolizing divinity and royalty. The piece showcases detailed carving typical of ancient Egyptian sculpture, with attention to the anatomical features of the bull.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Apis
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235411 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 19.2.5 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544481 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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