Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Canopic jar head
Description
Pottery, marl C, self slip
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 sculpted head depicting a male figure with closed eyes and a neutral expression.
The artifact is a sculpted limestone head, likely part of a larger statue. The figure has stylized long hair and detailed facial features. The expressions are calm with closed eyes, suggesting a serene or meditative state. The sculpture has a naturalistic style, typical of some periods of Egyptian art. The piece appears to be a fragment as only the head is present.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280979 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.176 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546607 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.