Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Piriform macehead with male faces
Description
Limestone (pink), organic material
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 red stone vessel with protruding decorative features resembling faces.
This artifact is a small, red stone vessel carved from a hard material, likely carnelian or another similar stone. It features three protruding elements that resemble stylized faces or masks. The craftsmanship indicates careful carving, with smooth surfaces and symmetrical features. The vessel's form is relatively simple, but the decorative elements add complexity.
decorative
Predynastic
excellent
Materials
carnelian
Connections
Materials
Carnelian
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116279936 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.176.56 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547211 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.