Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of a King with a Nemes Headdress
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.
Carved wooden head of an ancient Egyptian statue.
The image depicts a carved wooden head of an ancient Egyptian figure. The head features detailed facial attributes including large eyes and stylized hair. The craftsmanship suggests it might have been part of a larger statue or artifact. The wood appears aged, with visible cracks indicating age and preservation challenges.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
wood
Connections
Materials
Wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389583 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.96 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329874 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.