Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Foundation deposit plaque of Amenemhat I
Description
Faience
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 stone artifact with faint carvings of hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a rectangular stone tablet with inscriptions carved onto its surface. The carvings appear faint and show signs of erosion, suggesting considerable age. The hieroglyphic style is traditional, lacking elaborate decorations, and appears to focus on text inscriptions without accompanying imagery.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Signs
unknown ×3
Visible text
"unclear"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281214 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.1016 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546516 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.