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

Relief fragment with royal titles

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Description

Limestone, paint (mostly modern)

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 relief with colored decoration.

This piece is a fragmentary relief, likely part of a larger scene, depicting partial colored shapes in blue and ochre. The style is characteristic of traditional Egyptian reliefs, with carved and painted elements that suggest it might have been part of a decorative or ceremonial composition. Notable are the smooth background and the crisp, sharp lines of color, indicative of skilled craftsmanship.

decorative unknown fragmentary
Materials limestone

Connections

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116246082 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 1991.237.11 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544930 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.