Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief fragment with the head of a goddess
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 fragment of a relief depicting the profile of a person's head.
The artifact is a limestone relief fragment featuring the profile of a head, possibly a royal or deity figure, as indicated by the stylized headdress. The detailed carving highlights the ear and the patterned headdress, which might suggest regal or divine status. The relief shows advanced craftsmanship typical of Egyptian stonework.
unclear
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116252370 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 08.200.56 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 543884 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.
- 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.