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

Smooth surfaces, bar-like

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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 plain limestone fragment with no visible inscriptions or carvings.

The image depicts a simple rectangular limestone fragment with a roughly finished surface. The artifact is undecorated and shows no carvings, inscriptions, or notable features. It appears to be a natural stone piece rather than a worked artifact, suggesting it could be a fragment from a larger structure or unprocessed material.

unclear unknown good
Materials limestone

Connections

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116272835 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 57.180.130 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 550039 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.