Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Fragment from the head of a statue

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Coniferous wood (Cedar), black 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 wooden fragment that appears to depict the remnants of a carved artifact.

The artifact is a wooden fragment with visible carvings and paint traces. The piece appears to be part of a larger object, possibly decorative in nature, with traces of black pigmentation and repetitive patterns. The object shows signs of wear, suggesting it may be quite old.

decorative unknown fragmentary
Materials woodpaint

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Materials WoodPaint

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116277264 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 14.7.106 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 547099 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.