Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Head of a Woman

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Faience (?)

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 sculpted head of an Egyptian figure on a wooden stand.

The artifact is a small stone sculpture depicting the head of an Egyptian figure, characterized by stylized features and a distinct hairstyle typical of certain Egyptian periods. It is mounted on a modern wooden stand, highlighting its display purpose. The artifact shows signs of wear, suggesting its antiquity, and the simplicity of the carving may indicate a common or easily reproducible style.

decorative unknown fragmentary
Materials stonewood

Connections

Materials StoneWood
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.