Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Fragment of a sculptured statue base depicting an Asiatic prisoner
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.