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

Fragment of a sculptured statue base depicting an Asiatic prisoner

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Schist

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 fragment of an Egyptian artifact with a carved human face.

This artifact fragment appears to be part of a larger sculpture, displaying a detailed human face with visible hair. The style suggests a focus on realism and individual characterization, possibly representing a person of significance. The edges are rough, indicating it is a fragment, and the material appears dark and likely stone. The composition suggests it might have been part of a larger scene or structure.

unclear uncertain fragmentary
Materials stone

Connections

Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116413735 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 1990.232 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544918 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.