Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief faragment with Nubians
Description
Limestone, paint (mostly original)
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.
Ancient Egyptian artifact fragment with red ochre engravings.
This artifact fragment displays incised lines filled with red ochre. The composition includes abstract patterns that are suggestive of hieroglyphs or early symbolic designs. The artwork style, showing simple and clear lines, indicates utilitarian or symbolic purposes often seen in early Egyptian art. This fragment exhibits weathering, indicating its age.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Signs
unknown sign ×5
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246093 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1991.237.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544923 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.
- 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.