Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Head of a statue
Description
Limestone, paint
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 damaged bust of an ancient Egyptian figure with close-cropped hair.
The artifact is a stone bust depicting an individual with stylized hair, possibly representing a wig. The face is partially eroded, particularly on the left side, indicating weathering or damage over time. The style reflects typical ancient Egyptian sculptural techniques, with simplified facial features and a serene expression.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116252406 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 41.2.11 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 543876 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.