Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of Ptah
Description
Egyptian blue, gold leaf
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 small, ancient Egyptian bust depicting a male figure with distinct facial features, possibly a priest or official.
The artifact is a small bust crafted likely from faience, showing a male figure with finely detailed facial features. The figure has a flat cap on the head, commonly associated with priests or officials in Egyptian iconography. The style is simplistic yet precise, characteristic of Egyptian sculpture, focusing on the distinct eyes and lips.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408912 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.45 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329943 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.
- 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.