Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief Plaque with head of a goddess or a queen
Description
Limestone
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.
Fragment of an ancient Egyptian relief depicting a head with a uraeus.
The artifact is a fragment of a stone relief featuring the profile of a head wearing a headdress. The distinguishable feature is the uraeus, suggesting a royal or divine aspect. The carving is detailed, with clean lines and a focus on the headdress. The craftsmanship indicates a high level of skill, typical of Egyptian art intended to portray divinity or royalty.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
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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.
- 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.