Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of an "Ethiopian" depicted in Hellenistic mode
Description
Black bronze, gold, carnelian, obsidian
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 bronze head with inlaid gold eyes from an Egyptian statue.
The artifact is a bronze head representing a human figure with detailed facial features. The eyes are inlaid with gold, adding a striking contrast to the dark bronze surface. The hair is intricately textured, suggesting a detailed representation. The style appears to reflect classical Egyptian artistry with an emphasis on symmetry and idealized features.
unclear
Ptolemaic
good
Materials
bronzegold
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280730 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.1417 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546766 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.