Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Head from a Statue with Magical Texts Late Period
Description
Head, priest. Late Period, Dynasty 30, probably reign of Nectanebo II, probably 360–343 B.C. Basalt. H. 21.2 cm (8 3/8 in.); W. 14.5 cm (5 11/16 in.); D. 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Men. Credit: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Incised linear/grouped strokes on the hair/upper scalp area; exact characters not clearly legible in this image.
Connections
Materials
Dark StoneBasalt
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276383 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1989.281.102 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547766 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.
- 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.