Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief fragment from mortuary complex of Senwosret I
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.
The artifact depicts a falcon head carving on a stone block.
The image shows a carved stone block featuring the head of a falcon, likely representing the god Horus. The carving displays meticulous detail in the depiction of the eye and beak. The style is indicative of traditional Egyptian relief sculpture, with naturalistic features and smooth contours suggesting classical craftsmanship.
religious
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Deities
Horus
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243982 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1994.496.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545505 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.