Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Stamp
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 stone artifact featuring a star-like symbol.
The artifact is a stone piece with a prominently engraved star-like symbol. The carving is simplistic, indicating a rudimentary style likely representative of early symbolic art. The stone appears roughly shaped with a flat surface to display the carving. Its unadorned composition and style suggest functional or symbolic use, possibly related to early religious or ceremonial purposes.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
star-like symbol
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414707 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 32.1.141 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546491 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.