Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shrine with statues of Amenemhat and his wife Neferu
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 small painted limestone tomb facade with seated figures and hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact depicts a limestone facade representing the entrance to a tomb. Within the niche, two seated figures can be identified, although they are damaged. The surrounding walls and columns of the facade are adorned with painted hieroglyphic inscriptions and decorative elements. The facade exhibits characteristic features of Egyptian funerary architecture with both symbolic and decorative elements, evident in the painted panels and the inscriptions.
funerary
Old Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestonepaint
Signs
ankh ×2
djed
unknown_hieroglyph ×15
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116249152 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.3.68 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544166 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.