Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Ostracon With a Royal Head
Description
Limestone, ink
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 sketch of a pharaoh's profile on a limestone fragment.
The artifact is a limestone fragment featuring a sketch in black ink. The profile appears to depict a pharaoh, characterized by a traditional headdress often seen in royal iconography. The lines are simple yet indicate detailed facial features and adornments typical of Egyptian royal depictions.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247443 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 14.6.209 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544714 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.
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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.