Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of a Harpokrates with a Blue Crown and Sidelock
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 carved stone head of an ancient Egyptian statue, possibly depicting a pharaoh.
The image shows a sculpted head made of limestone. The figure wears a nemes headdress with a uraeus, suggesting royal significance. The features are finely detailed, with almond-shaped eyes and a serene expression typical of royal portraiture in ancient Egyptian art.
royal
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408635 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.95 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329873 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.