Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Cornice Block with Relief Depicting the Purification of the Pharaoh
Description
Sandstone
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.
Carved limestone relief depicting a deity with an ibis head offering something to a human figure.
The limestone relief features a depiction of the ibis-headed god Thoth presenting offerings or holding an object towards another figure, who is possibly a pharaoh or noble, indicated by the ancient Egyptian headdress. The carving style is typical of the precise lines and detailed hieroglyphs associated with compositions from significant periods of Egyptian artistry. Hieroglyphs are present above the figures, adding to the narrative scene depicted.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Thoth
Materials
limestone
Signs
ibis
ankh
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415166 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 11.154.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547283 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.