Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Royal hand
Description
Limestone, paint
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.
Fragment of a relief depicting a hand holding an ankh.
The artifact is a limestone fragment showing a finely carved hand grasping an ankh symbol. The style is characteristic of Egyptian reliefs with smooth surfaces and precise line work. The depiction suggests a probable ceremonial or symbolic context often associated with life or divine protection.
religious
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247571 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1985.328.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544675 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.