Head of Osiris wearing Atef Crown
Description
Late Period (Saite), Dynasty 26, 600–550 BC. Greywacke. h. 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in); w. 14 cm (5 1/2 in); d. 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in). From: Egypt. Credit: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A sculpted male head of Egyptian funerary deity type, shown in a frontal view with distinctive crown-like elements and dark, kohl-lined eyes.
The image shows a stone head with a vertical crown element rising from the forehead region and a pair of horizontal/arched band-like forms flanking the top, suggesting a crown of the Atef type (or an unclear but crowned variant). The face has heavy, downturned kohl markings around almond-shaped eyes, arched eyebrows, and a slightly parted mouth. On the forehead/crown area there are small worn decorative details; the lower face shows chips and dark staining/repairs. The stone surface has a grey-green cast with weathering and highlights consistent with carved sculpture. No clearly legible hieroglyphs are visible in the provided image; any small marks on the crown appear too worn to read. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276467 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1972.118.195 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547700 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.