Relief head of a child god
Description
Sculptor's model/votive, head of child god. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–200 BCE. Limestone. H. 15.3 × W. 17.2 × D. 2 cm (6 × 6 3/4 × 13/16 in.). Possibly from: Fayum. Credit: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1956.
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 limestone relief fragment preserving the profile head of a youthful divine figure, with a feathered headdress and a curled ear-like ornament.
The object is a roughly oval, broken limestone relief showing the left-facing profile of a childlike god or youthful deity. The figure’s face is modeled in shallow relief with closed/outlined eye, a straight nose, and a short mouth. A large feathered/segmented headdress or wing-like element rises behind and above the head; on the near side, it curves down toward the ear area. A small curled form near the ear suggests an ear ornament or stylized curl associated with divine youth. No clear attributes tying the figure to a specific named deity are unambiguously identifiable from this fragment alone. The background field is worn and the stone has chips along the edges; no legible inscription is visible.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116252340 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 56.99 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 551360 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.