Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief of Renenutet, represented as a woman, from a deity procession
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 a limestone wall relief with a seated man's profile and hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a fragmentary limestone relief depicting a seated male figure in profile, possibly representing a scribe or an official, with a portion of hieroglyphic text above and in front of the figure. The style is indicative of typical Egyptian relief work, with detailed carving and traces of black and red paint visible. The composition includes several hieroglyphic symbols, fish, and a reed symbol, suggesting an offering scene or record-keeping context.
daily life
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
bread loaf
reed
fish
circle with dot
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413989 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 09.180.40 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545471 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.