Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
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Description
Limestone, ink
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 limestone fragment with a hieroglyphic depiction.
The artifact is a vertical limestone fragment featuring a clear hieroglyph of a basket with a handle. The composition is simple, emphasizing the singular hieroglyph against a plain background. The style is typical of ancient Egyptian inscriptions.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
basket
Visible text
"H3t"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414052 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 19.3.18 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545581 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.