Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Upper part of male statue
Description
Limestone
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 sculpted bust depicting an ancient Egyptian figure with a headdress.
The artifact is a bust of an ancient Egyptian figure, characterized by a minimalist yet expressive representation. The figure wears a traditional headdress, suggesting a status of some importance. The sculpture is made from limestone and shows signs of weathering and age, but the details are still discernible. The style is typical of Egyptian portraiture with an emphasis on frontal and symmetrical composition.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280891 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.230 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546663 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.