Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Head and Shoulders of a Man from a Pair Statue
Description
Sandstone, 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 fragmentary limestone bust of an Egyptian figure wearing a headdress.
The artifact is a limestone bust depicting a figure wearing a distinctive Egyptian headdress, likely part of a larger statue or relief. The face is well-carved, showing traditional features, though the fragmentary condition obscures some detail. The remnants of the headdress and the style suggest a traditional Egyptian artistic form.
royal
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116274819 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 13.182.1a tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548635 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.