Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief with palace rooms
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 carved limestone fragment depicting a figure presenting offerings and hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a limestone relief fragment showcasing a standing figure, possibly a priest or official, making offerings to deities or ancestors. The right side of the relief is filled with hieroglyphs which seem to be a part of a larger inscription. The carving style is typical of Egyptian relief work, with detailed lines and figures rendered in profile.
religious
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245938 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1991.237.47 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544966 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.