Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Face of Senwosret III
Description
Red 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 fragmentary mask or sculpture of a face with detailed features, made from a reddish-brown material.
The image depicts a fragmentary piece of a facial sculpture, possibly part of a larger statue or mask. The material appears to be a reddish-brown stone, with clear carving lines indicating facial features such as eyes, nose, and mouth. The style suggests an attempt at realistic representation, typical of ancient Egyptian art aimed at portraying individuals or deities.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
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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.