Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief block from the tomb of Sebeknakht
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 limestone slab featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions and figures.
The artifact is a rectangular limestone slab with vertical columns of hieroglyphic inscriptions interspersed with figures. The inscriptions are well-carved, typical of the Middle Kingdom style. The figures appear to depict deities or officials, indicative of royal or religious significance. The slab is relatively well-preserved, with some minor damage on the edges.
religious
Middle Kingdom
good
Deities
Osiris
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh
djed
was
Visible text
"ḥtp dj nsw"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248289 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 09.180.111 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544198 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.