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

Antelope Head

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Description

Greywacke, travertine (Egyptian alabaster), agate

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.

An ancient Egyptian sculpture depicting a ram's head.

The artifact is a finely crafted sculpture of a ram’s head, displaying intricately detailed features such as the eyes and snout. The composition suggests it could have been a part of a larger statue or an architectural element. The style is indicative of the detailed animal representations in Egyptian art.

decorative New Kingdom good
Materials stone

Connections

Found at Memphis
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q29385756 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 1992.55 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544070 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.