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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Face from a Composite Statue, probably Queen Tiye

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Description

Quartzite

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 carved stone head depicting a person with stylized facial features.

The artifact is a stone sculpture of a head, showing a symmetrical and stylized representation typical of ancient Egyptian art. The eyes are almond-shaped, and the eyebrows are carved with precise lines. The surface displays a smooth finish, with some wear visible, suggesting its age.

decorative New Kingdom good
Materials stone

Connections

Found at Amarna (Akhetaten)
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q29385828 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 11.150.26 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544693 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.