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

Relief with Head of King Ahmose Wearing the Red Crown

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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

Connections

Found at Abydos
Materials Limestone

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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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.