Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · relief_fragment
Facsimile of the painting at the head end of the sarcophagus of Aashyt
Description
First Intermediate Period–Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 11, reign of Mentuhotep II, ca. 2051–2030 B.C. Tempera on paper. facsimile: h. 34 cm (13 3/8 in); w. 31 cm (12 3/16 in), scale 1:2, framed: h. 38.1 cm (15 in); w. 34.9 cm (13 3/4 in). From: Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Heads, Hieroglyphs, Sarcophagus. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1948.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
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Visible text (machine reading)
Top band contains hieroglyph-like signs, but no clearly readable excerpt or cartouche is legible at this resolution.
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