Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Ostracon
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.
An ancient Egyptian limestone fragment with a black ink drawing of a human figure and an inscription at the top.
The artifact is a small, uneven limestone fragment. It features a black ink drawing depicting a stylized human figure holding a large object, possibly a tool or weapon. Above the figure is a short inscription in black ink that appears to be in a cursive script. The style of the drawing is simplistic and suggests a quick, possibly informal sketch.
daily life
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
walking man
Visible text
"incomplete"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243700 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 19.3.19 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545582 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.