Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture

Tile fragment

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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

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Limestone

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.