Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of King Amenemhat III
Description
Granodiorite
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 black stone sculpture of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh's head with a broken crown.
The artifact is a black stone sculpture depicting the head of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. Notable features include the remnants of a crown with significant damage and erosion, suggesting it has endured substantial wear over time. The facial features are solemn, and the artwork follows traditional Egyptian statuary styles.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235380 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 24.7.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545549 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.