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

Relief fragment

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Description

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981–1640 B.C. Granite. a=H. 13.9 × W. 19.1 × D. 17.7 cm (5 1/2 × 7 1/2 × 6 15/16 in.); g=H. 8 × W. 5 × D. 6.6 cm (3 1/8 × 1 15/16 × 2 5/8 in.). From: tomb of Senwosretankh, Pit 8, Lisht South, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1932–33. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1933.

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 roughly shaped stone relief fragment showing recessed carved lines forming a rectangular register and individual sign-like strokes.

The object is a weathered, broken granite-like block with part of a relief scene and/or inscription rendered in incised/recessed lines. A horizontal band and a rectangular border are visible on the main face, suggesting a panel or register. Within the panel are darker, rounded/curved strokes and linear elements that resemble partial hieroglyphic strokes, but the full signs are incomplete due to damage. No complete cartouche or deity figure is preserved in the visible portion. There is no visible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text. Surface pitting and erosion obscure finer details, and the material appearance suggests a speckled hard stone consistent with granite as catalogued.

decorative Middle Kingdom (uncertain; consistent with catalogue but insufficient preserved iconography to verify) fragmentary
Materials stone (granite-like)
Signs partial hieroglyphic strokes within a bordered panel (unidentified) ×2
Visible text "No readable full inscription; only partial, unclear hieroglyph-like strokes within a bordered rectangular register."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

No readable full inscription; only partial, unclear hieroglyph-like strokes within a bordered rectangular register.

Connections

Found at Lisht
Materials Stone
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.