Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Fragmentary offering list with mention of unguents and incense; meat, bread, wine; and beer, fowl and desserts. The queen's name is at the lower left.

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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.

A fragment of an ancient Egyptian artifact with hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The artifact is a broken piece of limestone featuring hieroglyphic carvings. It displays a series of symbols including birds and a container. The carved symbols are prominently displayed in a vertical row, indicating a segment of text or symbolic representation typical of Egyptian relief work. The style reflects the precise and stylized approach to hieroglyphic script common in ancient Egyptian cultures.

hieroglyphic only unknown fragmentary
Materials limestone
Signs goose or bird ×2 container

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Limestone
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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.