Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Hand of a Seated Deity
Description
Granite
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 of an ancient Egyptian artifact featuring a carved detail.
The artifact is a dark stone fragment, possibly granite, showing a carved detail that might have been part of a larger statue or relief. The carving displays subtle rounding, suggesting it might represent a part of a human or an animal figure. The surface shows signs of wear with patches of reddish color possibly indicating pigment remnants or natural mineral composition.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
granite
Connections
Materials
Granite
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.