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

Relief with 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.

The artifact depicts two cartouches with hieroglyphs on a stone fragment.

This stone fragment shows two cartouches prominently featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions. The hieroglyphs are finely carved and enclosed in oval shapes that signify royal names. The style and composition suggest a formal royal context. The artifact's surface appears weathered, indicating its age.

royal New Kingdom fragmentary
Royals Ramesses
Materials limestone
Signs reed leaf vulture
Visible text "nswt bity Ramesses"

Connections

Royals Ramesses
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116246073 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 1991.237.18 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544937 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.