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Head of a woman

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Description

Head, woman. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Ivory (Hippopotamus), Egyptian blue (traces). H. 2.7 cm (1 1/16 in); W. 1.8 cm (11/16 in); D. 2.2 cm (7/8 in). Possibly from: Gurob, Fayum Entrance Area. Subject: Heads, Women. Credit: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A carved ivory head of a woman, shown from the front, with incised facial features and a wig-like coiffure.

The image shows a small sculpted head (upper portion of a figure) centered against a dark background. The face has almond-shaped eyes with heavy lids, defined eyebrows, a straight nose, and a closed mouth with a subtle chin/cheek modeling. The hair appears as a smoothed, wig-like coiffure with incised contour lines around the temples and crown; the hairstyle ends below the face at the neck area. The head is mounted on a separate dark wooden base/stand. No clear hieroglyphic inscription, cartouche, or readable text is visible on the head or base in this image. Traces of blue are not clearly discernible in the provided photo, though the catalogued identification notes traces of Egyptian blue; this is not conclusively confirmable from the image quality and lighting. No deities or royal names are identifiable.

decorative New Kingdom (as catalogued; specific reign not identifiable from image) good
Materials ivory (carved head)wood (mount/base)

Connections

Found at Gurob (Kom Medinet Ghurab)
Materials Ivory

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116235435 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 1989.281.93 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544055 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.