Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Canopic Jar Lid
Description
Pottery, Nile B, red ochre wask
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 terracotta head of a man with a serene expression and detailed facial features.
The artifact is a terracotta head depicting a male figure with a serene expression. The style is simplistic yet detailed, highlighting the ears, nose, and mouth with precision. The material is reddish-brown terracotta, suggesting it may have been part of a larger statue or funerary object. Some wear and minor damage are visible, but overall, it retains a clear depiction of the intended figure.
funerary
unclear
good
Materials
terracotta
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235395 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 27.3.559 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544848 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.