Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

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Description

Clay (unfired)

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 stone with decorative carvings of spiral patterns.

The artifact is a stone fragment featuring intricate spiral and circular patterns. The carvings suggest a decorative purpose, with the style indicative of artistic practices that may be tied to symbolic or aesthetic traditions. Despite its fragmentary condition, the design remains quite visible.

decorative unknown fragmentary
Materials limestone

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Limestone
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.