Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of a woman
Description
Ivory (Hippopotamus), Egyptian blue (traces)
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 ivory head representing a female face.
The artifact is a carved ivory head displaying a stylized female face with prominent eyes and a serene expression. The craftsmanship showcases delicate features with a smooth surface. The head is mounted on a wooden base, indicating it may have been part of a larger figure.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
ivorywood
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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- 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.
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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.