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 limestone artifact featuring carved hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a rectangular limestone piece with several carved hieroglyphs. The inscriptions appear to be concise and abstract, with figures of birds and other symbols, typical of Egyptian script. The surface shows some signs of wear, common in ancient stonework.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
bird
reed leaf
triangle
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281210 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.1017 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546517 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.