Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Head from a figure of a child god, perhaps Harpokrates
Description
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 faience head of a male figure wearing a headdress.
The artifact is a small sculpted head in a blue-green faience material, depicting a male figure with distinct facial features and a traditional headdress. The craftsmanship highlights the serene expression and intricate details of the headdress, which is indicative of skilled artistry. Mounted on a black stand, the piece is likely a fragment from a larger statue or object.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
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.