Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of Akhenaten
Description
Sandstone
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 sculpted limestone head depicting a pharaoh wearing a headdress.
The image shows a sculpted head made of limestone, featuring a pharaoh wearing the traditional nemes headdress with a uraeus. The face is stylized with prominent eyes and lips, typical of royal portraiture from ancient Egypt. The piece lacks significant decoration or color, with an emphasis on form and symmetry.
royal
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244614 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 21.9.17 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544528 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.