Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Tile fragment
Description
Faded blue faience
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.
Fragment from an ancient Egyptian relief depicting a symbol related to power or authority.
The artifact is a small fragment of what appears to be an ancient Egyptian relief sculpture. It features a partial depiction of a hieroglyphic sign, potentially a symbol of power, carved into a stone surface. The composition is simplistic with remnants of blue and possibly red pigment visible. The relief is carved in a style typical of formal and symbolic representation.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
unknown
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414874 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.123 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546816 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.