Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of a sphinx, possibly of Amenemhat I
Description
Dolomitic marble
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 stone head of an ancient Egyptian royal figure wearing a nemes headdress with an uraeus.
The artifact is a sculpted stone head portraying a royal figure, possibly a pharaoh, indicated by the nemes headdress and uraeus, symbolizing kingship. The style suggests detailed craftsmanship, focusing on the facial features and headdress. The sculpture shows some signs of wear, likely from age.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245506 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.99.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545105 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.