Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Upper half of a woman from a pair or group statue
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
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.