Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Male Head with a Short Wig, Possibly Pehenptah

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Limestone, paint

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 sculpted head with textured hair and damaged facial features.

The artifact is a sculpted head showing a figure with detailed, stylized hair in a patterned, textured design. The facial features are partially damaged, with notable wear and loss on the nose and cheek. The craftsmanship suggests attention to stylization typical of ancient artistic traditions.

unclear unclear fragmentary
Materials limestone

Connections

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116389586 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 2021.41.92 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 329870 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.
  • 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.