Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of a Ptolemaic Queen, Possibly Berenike II
Description
Green and yellow faience
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 sculpture of a female head with a damaged nose and decorative elements.
The artifact is a small faience sculpture of a female head, displaying remnants of decorative elements atop the head, possibly representing a goddess or a person of high status. The surface shows some weathering and the nose is notably damaged, suggesting age or erosion. The style indicates an intricate design typical of Egyptian craftsmanship with attention to detail in the hair and ornamental features.
decorative
Ptolemaic
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408334 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.36 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329804 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.