Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Bust of an Official
Description
Greywacke
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.
Bust of an ancient Egyptian official with a stern expression.
The artifact is a stone bust depicting an ancient Egyptian male, likely an official, characterized by a stern facial expression and wearing a wig. The sculpture is made from a dark stone and displays careful attention to facial features while lacking detailed body portrayal due to its fragmentary state.
royal
Old Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280785 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 25.2.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546751 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.