Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Sphinx of Amenhotep II
Description
Sandstone
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 small stone sphinx statue with a human head and a lion's body.
The artifact is a finely carved stone sphinx featuring the traditional human head with a nemes headdress and the body of a lion. The human face shows serene features, and there is some evidence of inscriptions on the chest area. Despite some erosion, the statue remains largely intact with well-defined details on the headdress and mane.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Visible text
"null"
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246370 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.72 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544823 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.