Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of a Man with a Round Wig
Description
Limestone, 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 limestone bust of an ancient Egyptian individual with distinctively styled hair.
This artifact is a limestone sculpture depicting the head of an ancient Egyptian individual. The hair is stylized with pronounced, grid-like grooves that suggest a wig. The facial features are detailed, with a serene expression. The sculpture exhibits traces of original paint, notably around the lips and eyes. The style reflects typical portraiture elements from ancient Egypt.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408234 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.23 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329789 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.