Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statuette of a female figure with a braid
Description
Steatite
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, ancient bust depicting a human figure with a unique hairstyle.
The artifact is a bust of a human figure with detailed craftsmanship. The hairstyle appears stylized and the material is smooth, likely carved stone. The figure lacks the arms, indicating it may be fragmentary. The overall style aligns with ancient Egyptian sculptures.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
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.