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

Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

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Description

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, reign of Amenemhat I, early, ca. 1981–1975 B.C. Limestone, paint. From: Tomb of Meketre (TT 280, MMA 1101), Southern Asasif, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920. Subject: Hieratic. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1920.

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.

Fragment of a painted limestone relief bearing dark pigment hieroglyphs on a small rectangular surface.

The image shows a roughly rectangular, broken stone relief fragment with one prominent, larger face. Dark, painted marks form a vertical line of hieroglyphs near the center-right of the visible face; additional smaller signs appear lower left. No figures of deities or human royal portraits are clearly present in the photographed portion—only hieroglyphic text is visible. The background stone is light gray, consistent with limestone; the pigment appears black or very dark, suggesting painted decoration.

hieroglyphic only Middle Kingdom (per catalogue) fragmentary
Materials limestonepaint (dark pigment)
Signs hieroglyphic signs (specific characters unclear) ×6
Visible text "Vertical line of dark-painted hieroglyphs; exact reading unclear from the image resolution/crop."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Vertical line of dark-painted hieroglyphs; exact reading unclear from the image resolution/crop.

Connections

Found at Asasif
Materials LimestonePaint

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116275187 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 20.3.368 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 562077 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • 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.