Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of a King, possibly Amememhat IV
Description
Limestone
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 fragment of a stone head depicting a pharaoh.
The artifact is a fragmentary stone sculpture of a pharaonic head, with visible details of the nemes headcloth and uraeus. The style suggests a focus on regal features, indicative of royal iconography. Notable are the delicate facial features and the damaged condition of the nose and edges.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248943 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 08.200.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544177 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.