Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of a Man with a Shaved Head
Description
Dense, gray-black hard stone
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 sculpted head of a male figure made from stone, mounted on a wooden base.
The artifact is a stone sculpture depicting the head of a male figure. It is detailed with defined facial features such as eyes, nose, and mouth, but shows surface wear, indicating its age. The head is mounted on a simple wooden base, suggesting it is a museum piece for display. The style reflects classical Egyptian stone sculpting techniques.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
stonewood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408823 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.142 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329922 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.