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

Amenhotep III with nemes headdress

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Description

Granite

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.

Carved stone head and upper shoulders of an Egyptian king wearing a striped nemes headdress.

The image shows a freestanding sculpture fragment consisting of a human head and partial shoulders. The figure has closely shaped facial features with downturned mouth and half-closed eyes. A nemes-style headdress with visible striped ridges runs across the top and down the sides. The stone surface has mottled light gray/cream coloration with darker speckling and small chips along edges, suggesting breakage and weathering. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or inscriptions are visible on the provided view, and there is no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text.

royal New Kingdom (ground truth: Amenhotep III) fragmentary
Materials stone (likely granite per catalogue)

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Royals Amenhotep III
Materials Stone
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