Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Sculptor's trial piece
Description
Limestone
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 relief depicting a male figure smiting a bound captive.
The relief shows a male figure, likely a king or warrior, raising an arm to smite a captive who is kneeling before him. The figures are in a dynamic composition typical of war scenes. There are fragments of hieroglyphs above the figures, indicating it may be part of a larger narrative or decorative scene. The style suggests it is part of a wall carving, possibly from a temple or tomb context.
military
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
smiting scene
bound captive
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247523 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 90.6.144 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544699 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.