Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief with running troops
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.
The artifact depicts a carved scene of marching figures with several rows of hieroglyphs.
This limestone relief shows a procession of figures, likely soldiers due to their marching formation. The scene is composed of horizontal registers filled with similarly posed figures. Above the figures, there is a section containing hieroglyphic inscriptions. The style is typical of ancient Egyptian relief carvings, with precise lines and a clear depiction of human figures in profile.
military
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh ×2
was
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116252371 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.1163 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 543883 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).
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