Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Half-Circle Plaque
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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 stone fragment with two carved cartouches.
This is a stone fragment depicting two cartouches carved into its surface. The stone is smooth, likely limestone, and the carvings are deeply etched, suggesting a possible early Egyptian style. The cartouches could indicate royal names, but no color or additional decoration is visible. The style is simplistic, emphasizing form over detail, which is characteristic of many ancient Egyptian inscriptions.
royal
unknown
fragmentary
Royals
unknown
Materials
limestone
Signs
cartouche ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389554 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 35.3.258 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544726 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.