Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Head of official from a scene
Description
Yellow quartzite, pigment
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 ancient Egyptian limestone artifact depicting a portion of a head with a striated headdress.
The image shows a fragment of an ancient Egyptian sculpture, likely carved from limestone. It depicts the side view of a head with a ridged headdress, which indicates typical stylistic features of Egyptian art. The texture suggests it has been worn with time, showing both the skill of ancient craftsmanship and the effects of aging.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116272821 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 21.9.437 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 550048 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.