Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief with the cartouches of Aten
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 limestone fragment depicting hieroglyphic inscriptions.
This artifact is a limestone fragment featuring hieroglyphic carvings. The inscriptions contain a series of symbols that appear to be part of a larger text, possibly from a religious or ceremonial context. The style is characteristic of Egyptian stonework, with incised characters that show signs of wear due to age.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
Ankh ×2
Circle (Sun Disc)
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246074 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1991.237.16 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544935 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.