Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Relief with Head of King Ahmose Wearing the Red Crown
Description
Limestone, paint
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 fragment depicting an Egyptian figure with a tall headdress and several hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a sculpted relief on a limestone fragment showing a profile view of an Egyptian figure with distinct features. The figure wears a tall, narrow headdress. Accompanying the figure, there are hieroglyphs, including symbols of a bird and a duck followed by various unidentified glyphs. The style indicates a classical Egyptian artistic form with emphasis on line work and profile portrayal.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
Reed
Duck
unknown ×3
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246515 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 06.1231.34 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544779 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.