Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Arm with enigmatic marks
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.
A fragment of an ancient Egyptian artifact with partial hieroglyphs.
The image depicts a fragment of a stone artifact with a partial depiction of hieroglyphs carved onto the surface. The stone appears worn, indicating age, and the visible symbol suggests it may have been part of a larger composition. The style suggests a traditional Egyptian hieroglyphic carving technique.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
feather
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246869 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.3.354l tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545404 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.