Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Ostracon depicting Ramesses IX offering Maat, attributed to the chief draftsman Amenhotep
Description
Limestone, ink
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 Egyptian ostracon depicting a pharaoh and hieroglyphs.
This artifact is a piece of limestone ostracon showing a partial sketch of a pharaoh in profile, wearing the royal headdress and holding a scepter. Surrounding the figure are several hieroglyphic inscriptions, including a cartouche. The style is characteristic of Egyptian sketches used for planning larger pieces or as practice. The lines are drawn in black ink or paint, and the piece shows signs of chipping at the edges.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Royals
Tutankhamun
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh
cartouche
was scepter
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247409 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 14.6.215 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544716 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.