Head of a Statuette of Ptah
Description
New Kingdom or later, ca. 1550 B.C.–1070 B.C. Faience. H. 4.2 × W. 3 × D. 3.4 cm (1 5/8 × 1 3/16 × 1 5/16 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020.
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 small faience statuette head showing the frontal face of an Egyptian god/figure with a bald, rounded crown and kohl-lined eyes.
The object is photographed frontally on a dark support pedestal. The head has a smooth, rounded scalp with no visible hair, and the facial features are modeled in low relief: large almond-shaped eyes with dark inlay for the upper lids, defined brows, a straight nose, and a small mouth. The cheeks and chin show pale-to-greenish surface areas consistent with ceramic glaze wear. There is no visible headdress, crown, or cartouche on the face/body in this view, and no readable hieroglyphic or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present.
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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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