Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Fragmentary Head of a Man
Description
Limestone, paint
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 painted plaster head, likely part of a larger statue.
The image depicts a fragmentary head made of painted plaster, characterized by vivid red pigmentation on the face with white highlights around the eyes. The hair is shown with contrasts of dark pigmentation, suggesting a headdress or stylized hairpiece. The piece appears to have been once part of a larger statue or relief.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
plaster
Connections
Materials
Plaster
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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.