Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Head of a King

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Description

Quartzite

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 stone sculpture of an Egyptian head with a headdress.

The image depicts a sculpted head from ancient Egypt, featuring a distinctive headdress typical of royalty or deific figures. The sculpture is made from stone and exhibits detailed carving around the eyes and lips, though some facial features are weathered or broken. The headdress includes decorative elements that suggest a royal or divine affiliation.

royal unknown fragmentary
Materials stone

Connections

Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116248884 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 12.183.6 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544179 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.