Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief Depicting the Purification of Queen Kiya (?)
Description
Limestone, 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.
Carved limestone relief depicting a female profile with a distinct hairstyle.
The artifact is a carved limestone relief, featuring a female profile with a detailed depiction of an Egyptian hairstyle, characterized by long, wavy strands. The carving showcases fine detail in the representation of the hair and facial features, reflecting artistic techniques typical of ancient Egyptian art.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247548 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1985.328.8 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544678 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.