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

Relief of a Female Deity's Head

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Description

Limestone

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 relief depicting the head of an Egyptian figure adorned with a serpent crown, likely representing a deity or royal personage.

The artifact is a limestone relief showing a profile view of a figure wearing a serpent crown, typically associated with divine or royal iconography. The carving style is detailed, with marked features such as the eye and headdress. The background is relatively plain, keeping focus on the figure.

royal New Kingdom good
Materials limestone

Connections

Deities Isis
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116246989 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 48.149.6 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544755 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.