Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of a Leopard with the Name of Hatshepsut
Description
Red jasper
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 small sculpture depicting the head of an animal, possibly a lioness, with visible inscriptions.
This artifact is a finely crafted sculpture of an animal's head, most likely a lioness, made from a reddish material, likely stone or faience. The sculpture includes detailed carvings that suggest fur and facial features, giving it a lifelike appearance. There are also incised lines and symbols on the top, which include hieroglyphic elements, adding to its artistic and cultural significance.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
stonefaience
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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.