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

Relief plaque depicting a royal figure

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Description

Limestone

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 fragmentary relief depicting a pharaoh in profile.

The artifact is a fragmentary limestone relief featuring the profile of a pharaoh wearing the traditional nemes headdress. The piece displays typical New Kingdom artistic style, with finely engraved facial features. The upper part is noticeably absent, likely broken off from a larger scene which might have included additional figures or hieroglyphs.

royal New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials limestone

Connections

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116408530 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 2021.41.82 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 329860 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.