Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Relief with royal male wearing gold of honor
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 is a fragment of an ancient Egyptian relief depicting the lower part of a human figure and some abstract designs.
This relief fragment shows the lower portion of a human figure, including part of a leg and foot, rendered in a stylized and abstract manner typical of Egyptian art. The piece includes geometric patterns and a portion of a curved shape that may have been part of larger iconography. The color palette involves earthy tones, and the carving is relatively shallow, indicative of traditional relief techniques.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245848 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1991.240.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545007 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.