Raised relief fragment
Description
Relief, Tomb of Nespekashuty. Late Period, Saite, Dynasty 26, reign of Psamtik I, 664–610 B.C. Limestone, varnish. 9.7 x 9 x 1.8. From: Tomb of Nespekashuty (TT 312, MMA 509), 1st chamber N. door, Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1922–23. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1923.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A fragment of an Egyptian raised-relief limestone object with a bordered vertical register containing partially preserved hieroglyphic strokes/columns.
The image shows a roughly rectangular limestone relief fragment, broken on multiple sides, with a smoothed background and shallow raised carving. Near the center-left is a tall vertical element resembling the edge of a column or a framed register, and adjacent to it are several incised/raised lines forming incomplete hieroglyphic strokes; the right half appears mostly blank or worn. A top edge shows a shallow band or border line, suggesting the fragment may have been part of a larger inscribed scene or text panel. No clearly identifiable deity figure or royal name/carthouche is preserved in the visible portion. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible, and only partial Egyptian hieroglyphic marks can be confirmed.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276122 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 23.3.908 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548009 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.