Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Head from the figure of an official
Description
Fine-grained greenish-grey 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 sculpted stone head of a figure mounted on a wooden base.
The artifact is a sculpted stone head depicting the facial features of a figure with well-defined eyes and nose. The sculpture is mounted on a wooden base. The style and carving techniques suggest it might originate from ancient Egyptian art, although without more context, the specific period is unclear. The base appears modern, indicating the head is displayed for contemporary viewing.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
stonewood
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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.