Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief showing Khety’s hand, with a graffito of Ramesside date
Description
Limestone, paint
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 Egyptian relief with prominently carved eye symbol.
The artifact is a fragmentary piece of carved stone, featuring a deeply incised eye, likely representing the Eye of Horus or Ra, which is surrounded by multiple lines of hieroglyphic text. The arrangement is typical of religious or funerary contexts, with attention to the eye's detailing and form. The hieroglyphs, though partially worn, suggest formal inscriptions possibly pertaining to rituals or offerings.
religious
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Deities
Horus
Materials
limestone
Signs
Eye of Horus
Visible text
"Partially visible hieroglyphics without a legible transliteration."
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244275 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 23.3.26 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545394 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.