Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of king Amasis from a sphinx
Description
Greenish limestone
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 carved stone head of an Egyptian pharaoh wearing a nemes headdress.
This artifact is a beautifully carved stone head depicting an Egyptian pharaoh. The distinguishing nemes headdress is prominently featured, with detailed striations. The sculpture displays a serene expression and skillful workmanship typical of royal depictions. The head may have once been part of a larger statue.
royal
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413715 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.99.178 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544885 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.