Amenhotep III with nemes headdress
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.
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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.