Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Lintel depicting Horus offering an <em>ankh</em> sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I
Description
Limestone, paint
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 interacting with a falcon-headed deity.
This limestone relief showcases a standing male figure offering an ankh to a falcon-headed deity, likely Horus. The relief is carved in bas-relief style with well-defined outlines and contains hieroglyphs above the figures. The headdress and positioning of the figures are typical of iconography seen in Ancient Egyptian funerary art. The artwork embodies symmetry and balance, common features in Egyptian relief work.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Horus
Materials
limestone
Signs
Ankh
Djed pillar
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116249517 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 08.200.6 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544141 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.