Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of Amun
Description
Granodiorite
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 stone artifact depicting the head of an ancient Egyptian deity with a large, elaborate headdress.
The artifact is a well-preserved stone carving representing the head of an ancient Egyptian deity. The figure wears a tall, columnar headdress adorned with vertical patterns resembling feathers or plant motifs. The facial features are finely carved, displaying the typical stylized representation common in Egyptian art, with almond-shaped eyes and a serene expression.
religious
New Kingdom
excellent
Deities
Amun
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413667 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 07.228.35 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544780 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.
- 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.