Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Head of a monkey from an ointment vessel
Description
Serpentinite
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 bronze head of an Egyptian artifact.
This is a fragmentary bronze head, representing part of an ancient Egyptian sculpture. The head is characterized by its stylized form, with simplified facial features including prominent eyes. The surface shows signs of oxidation typical of aged bronze.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
bronze
Connections
Materials
Bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251993 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1970.184.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544034 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.