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

Relief Fragment , "hr" hieroglyph

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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.

Fragment of a limestone relief depicting a person's head.

The relief features the head of a person carved into a fragmented piece of limestone. The style is typical of ancient Egyptian reliefs with attention to facial features. The composition is minimal due to the fragmentary nature of the piece, with notable features being the depiction of the eyes and ears.

unclear unknown fragmentary
Materials limestone

Connections

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116282250 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 50.19.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546031 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.