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Raised relief fragment

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 23.3.991. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 23.3.991
Find spot: Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period, Saite
Dynasty: Dynasty 26
Reign: reign of Psamtik I
Date: 664–610 B.C.
Date range: 664 BCE – 610 BCE
Materials: ['limestone']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Description

Relief, Tomb of Nespekashuty. Late Period, Saite, Dynasty 26, reign of Psamtik I, 664–610 B.C. Limestone. 5 x 22 x 10.5. From: Tomb of Nespekashuty (TT 312, MMA 509), Not from Nespakashuty, 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 carved limestone fragment with traces of incised/raised hieroglyph-like marks along the upper surface, shaped as a long rectangular band.

The object appears to be a long, horizontally oriented fragment with a broken/rough underside and a relatively flat top. Along the upper edge and central band, there are shallow, line-like carved marks that resemble hieroglyphic strokes or part of a register of text. No complete signs, cartouches, or clearly identifiable deity figures are preserved in the visible portion. The surface shows weathering and light abrasions consistent with an archaeological stone carving fragment. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The image does not show any distinct royal name cartouche or iconography that can be securely identified.

hieroglyphic only Late Period, Saite (per catalogue; exact dating cannot be confirmed from the fragment alone) fragmentary

Materials limestone

Signs unclear hieroglyphic stroke group ×5

Visible text "Partial/fragmentary incised/relief hieroglyph-like strokes; no legible full sign sequence preserved."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Partial/fragmentary incised/relief hieroglyph-like strokes; no legible full sign sequence preserved.

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Found at Deir el-Bahri

Materials Limestone

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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.
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