Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Relief with a royal figure
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 with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a limestone fragment depicting a series of hieroglyphic inscriptions. The style is consistent with traditional Egyptian relief work, showing precise carvings typical of temple or tomb reliefs. The composition features vertical columns of hieroglyphs with remnants of red and black pigment, indicating the inscriptions were once colored. The piece appears to be a segment of a larger narrative or decorative scene.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
reed ×2
water ripple
ankh
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246006 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1991.237.25 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544944 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.