Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Fragment of an Obelisk
Description
Tempera on paper
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A fragment of an ancient Egyptian artifact featuring brightly colored hieroglyphs, including a cartouche.
The image depicts a fragment of an ancient Egyptian artifact with detailed and colorful hieroglyphs. It includes a cartouche, elaborate symbols, and vibrant depictions of birds. The style is indicative of high-quality craftsmanship with intricate painting, suggesting a well-preserved piece originally part of a larger work. The composition focuses on iconography and hieroglyphic inscriptions, likely of royal significance.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
painted plaster
Signs
Ankh
Djed
Was
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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.