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Possible trial piece depicting a lion-headed deity

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Roman Period, A.D. 1st century. Stone. H. 19.3 × W. 26.5 × D. 10.8 cm (7 5/8 × 10 7/16 × 4 1/4 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910.

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 carved stone fragment showing an oval/inscribed field on the face, with surrounding worn relief that may include a figure or symbolic elements.

The artifact appears to be a broken stone block or fragment. On the visible face there is a shallow oval cartouche-like or medallion-like frame containing what looks like internal raised markings, though the details are too worn or ambiguous to read as specific hieroglyphs. The surrounding surface shows rough carving and damage along the edges, with no clearly preserved full figure or attributes. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. Overall, the piece is best described as an inscription/relief fragment with heavily eroded features.

unclear Roman Period (as given by catalogue; not independently confirmable from the image) fragmentary
Deities unknown (possible lion-headed deity per catalogue; not clearly identifiable in image)
Materials stone
Signs oval cartouche/medallion with internal worn signs (unreadable)
Visible text "Unreadable worn signs inside an oval frame; no legible full word or formula preserved."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Unreadable worn signs inside an oval frame; no legible full word or formula preserved.

Connections

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.