Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief fragment: foreigner with feather in his hair and Nubian
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 carved limestone relief featuring partial inscriptions.
The artifact is an irregularly shaped piece of limestone with faint carvings and inscriptions. The style appears to be typical of ancient Egyptian relief work, although the piece is heavily worn, which obscures much of the detail. The composition suggests it may have been part of a larger scene, possibly depicting a figure or a structure, with hieroglyphic inscriptions on the surface.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244051 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 13.235.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545478 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.