Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Head of a King Wearing the Nemes
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.
A small head sculpture of an ancient Egyptian figure.
The artifact is a carved head made from limestone. It depicts a figure wearing a headdress typical of pharaonic imagery, indicating a connection to royalty. The style of the carving suggests attention to detail and symmetrical features. The headdress features a uraeus, a symbol of royalty and divine authority.
royal
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408620 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.94 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329872 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.