Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief with royal names
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 weathered limestone artifact featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a rectangular limestone fragment with weathered edges. It displays multiple columns of intricately carved hieroglyphs, indicating it might have been part of a larger inscription. Notable features include clear representations of common hieroglyphic symbols such as birds, plants, and geometric shapes. The style suggests it was used for formal or monumental purposes.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh
reed ×2
chisel
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246003 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1991.237.27 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544946 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.