Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief with courtyards
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 rectangular limestone fragment with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a limestone slab featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions carved into its surface. The hieroglyphs are arranged in columns and appear to include stylized depictions of objects and possibly animals, typical of ancient Egyptian script. The surface shows signs of aging and erosion, but the inscriptions remain largely legible.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
reed shelter ×2
bread
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245861 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1991.237.77 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544996 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.