Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Face from a statuette
Description
Ivory
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 small, carved head made of ivory with hollow eyes.
This artifact is a carved ivory head with prominent, hollow eyes and a stylized depiction of facial features. The surface appears smooth, indicating skilled craftsmanship. The features suggest an artistic representation rather than realistic portraiture.
unknown
unknown
good
Materials
ivory
Connections
Materials
Ivory
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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.