Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of a Sphinx
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.
Fragmentary limestone sculpture of a pharaoh's head.
This image shows a fragmentary limestone sculpture representing the head of a pharaoh. The sculpture exhibits classic Egyptian features such as a nemes headdress and a calm expression typical of royal depictions. The left side of the face is significantly damaged, while the right side retains detail, including finely carved facial features.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244010 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1978.204 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545504 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.