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

Relief with the cartouches of Aten

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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 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)

Connections

Materials Limestone

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.