Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief with temple altars and architecture
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 fragment of an ancient Egyptian relief featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a limestone fragment displaying a series of hieroglyphic inscriptions in raised relief. The composition is linear, with symbols arranged in neatly organized rows. Each symbol is well-defined, showing detailed workmanship typical of Egyptian art. The color remnants suggest it may have originally been more vividly painted.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
bread loaf ×7
reed ×5
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413795 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1991.240.6 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545012 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.