Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Seal
Description
Glazed steatite
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 fragment of an ancient Egyptian artifact showing hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a small, rectangular piece made of stone with engraved hieroglyphs. The surface shows signs of wear, indicating it is an ancient piece. The style of the script suggests it may date from a historical Egyptian period. The stone appears to be limestone, commonly used for such artifacts.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
reed
bread loaf
unknown ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243553 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.18 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545700 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.