Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief Trial Piece with the Head of the King
Description
Limestone
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 carved limestone relief depicting a profile of a person's head adorned with a headdress.
The artifact is a fragmentary limestone relief featuring an intricately carved profile of a person. The figure wears a detailed headdress with patterns suggesting a royal or significant status. The craftsmanship shows fine detailing and a delicate approach to the portrayal of facial features. The background is plain, and there is no visible inscription or additional iconography.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247760 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.83 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544482 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.