Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Lintel depicting King Amenemhat I flanked by Nekhbet, Horus, Anubis, and Wadjet
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 relief depicting a scene with Egyptian deities presenting offerings.
The relief is a finely carved limestone scene featuring multiple deities, each bearing offerings. The figures are adorned with traditional Egyptian garments and headdresses, indicating their divine status. The background is filled with hieroglyphic inscriptions, some of which are carved and others painted. The craftsmanship suggests a style typical of Egyptian temple or tomb decoration, with color still visible in some areas.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Anubis
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh ×2
was
Djed
Cross-references (4)
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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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.