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

Head of a goddess

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

Description

Glazed stone (?)

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 ancient Egyptian bust depicting a deity.

The artifact is a small bust made from a dark material, possibly stone, showing a head adorned with a tall, conical headdress. The facial features are stylized, typical of ancient Egyptian art, with almond-shaped eyes and a formal posture. The headdress indicates it might represent a specific deity.

religious unknown good
Materials stone

Connections

Materials Stone
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.