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

Face of Senwosret III

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Description

Red quartzite

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.

A sculpted human head/face in relief-like roundel form, showing heavy-lidded eyes and a full nose and lips, photographed frontally against a neutral background.

The image shows a stone sculptural fragment consisting of the front face of a male figure. The eyes are carved with deep upper lids and pronounced lower lids; the nose is prominent with a defined bridge and tip; the mouth is carved with full lips. The scalp is not clearly preserved, and the top edges of the piece are rough/chipped, suggesting a fragment. No clear attributes of a deity (e.g., divine crown, horns) are visible; it primarily reads as a royal or individual portrait-style head. There are no visible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other inscriptions on the exposed surface, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is apparent. A support/rod is visible behind the object, indicating museum display. The surface color appears reddish-brown, consistent with the museum catalogue’s stated material of red quartzite, though the exact mineral cannot be confirmed from the image alone.

royal Middle Kingdom (as per catalogue); exact dynasty/reign indeterminate from image alone. fragmentary
Royals Senwosret III (from catalogue title; not visually confirmed in image)
Materials stone (reddish-brown; consistent with red quartzite)

Connections

Royals Senwosret III
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q29385767 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.7.1394 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544184 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.