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

Relief with the head of a female personification of an estate

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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 fragment of a limestone relief with hieroglyphs and a depiction of a person.

The artifact is a limestone fragment containing notable hieroglyphic inscriptions and an image of a person, likely wearing a headdress. The composition includes a cartouche featuring a bird, suggesting royal or significant status. The surrounding hieroglyphs indicate symbolic or pharaonic significance, typical of reliefs from the New Kingdom period. The style is consistent with formal Egyptian relief work.

royal New Kingdom fragmentary
Royals unclear
Materials limestone
Signs Reed Snake
Visible text "unclear"

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116252354 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 22.1.7 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 543891 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.