Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief fragment of an Asiatic raising his hands in adoration
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.
A carved limestone relief depicting a figure with a distinctive hairstyle and beard.
This artifact is a limestone relief showcasing a profile view of a male figure, characterized by a prominent beard and a shoulder-length hairstyle. The figure raises one arm, and the carving style suggests a focus on linear detailing typical of Egyptian art. The relief's texture indicates age, with shallow carving and minimal backgrounds to emphasize the figure.
unclear
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116275255 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 12.182.40 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548441 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.