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Head of the god Amun

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Description

Granodiorite

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 stone head sculpture of an Egyptian pharaoh.

This sculpture depicts the head of an Egyptian pharaoh wearing a tall, flat-topped crown. The face is finely carved with detailed eyes and a serene expression, showing distinctive artistic features common in royal portraiture. The head is broken off at the base, and the surface shows signs of wear but retains considerable detail.

royal New Kingdom fragmentary
Royals unclear
Materials stone

Connections

Deities Amun
Royals Tutankhamun
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q29385825 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 07.228.34 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544691 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.