Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Head of Amenhotep III Wearing the White Crown
Description
Granite
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 weathered granite head of an Egyptian statue, likely representing a pharaoh.
The artifact is a granite statue head depicting a figure with a distinctively elongated crown or headdress, typically associated with royal or divine imagery. The facial features are stylized with defined eyes and prominently carved eyebrows. The surface shows signs of wear, suggesting historical age and exposure. The use of granite hints at its significance and durability, common in royal or monumental art.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
granite
Connections
Materials
Granite
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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.