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

Upper half of a woman from a pair or group statue

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Steatite or serpentinite

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 carved stone head of a deity with elaborate headdress features prominently.

The artifact is a carved stone bust depicting a deity with an elaborate headdress. The craftsmanship is indicative of a high level of skill, with attention paid to facial features and the stylized wig. The stone is likely weathered with age, hinting at the artifact's antiquity.

religious New Kingdom good
Deities Hathor
Materials stone

Connections

Deities Hathor
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116408177 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 2021.41.18 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 329783 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.