Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Upper Part of a Statue
Description
Quartzite
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.
Bust of an Egyptian figure with a headdress, made from stone.
This artifact is a stone bust depicting an Egyptian figure wearing a headdress. The style is characteristic of ancient Egyptian sculpture, highlighting detailed facial features and symmetry. The figure's shoulders are visible, and the texture of the stone is smooth, indicating careful craftsmanship. While the exact identity of the figure is unclear, the presence of the headdress suggests a person of importance.
royal
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245460 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 59.26.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545106 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.