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Relief with hieroglyphic label "Lord of Cats' Town"

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Description

Relief, hieroglyphic label "Lord of Cats' Town". Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5–6, ca. 2353–2150 B.C. Limestone. H. 34.6 cm (13 5/8 in.); W. 38.1 cm (15 in.); D. 7 cm (2 3/4 in.). From: Pyramid Complex of Amenemhat I, debris, Lisht North, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1912–13. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1915.

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 limestone carved relief plaque with multiple incised hieroglyphic signs arranged in registers; no clear figure is visible beyond the sign fields.

The object appears to be a roughly rectangular, broken limestone block/relief with a broad face carved in low relief or incised lines. The central portion contains a vertical column or set of stacked hieroglyph-like signs, with additional horizontal sign group(s) to the left and right. Several signs are partially damaged, and some edges are chipped, obscuring exact reading. No distinct royal cartouche, throne-name frame, or clearly identifiable deity iconography is unambiguously visible in the provided view. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

hieroglyphic only Old Kingdom (as catalogued) fragmentary
Materials limestone
Signs incised/low-relief hieroglyphic signs (unreadable fragments) ×10
Visible text "Unreadable from the image resolution; appears to be an Egyptian hieroglyphic label with multiple stacked signs."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Unreadable from the image resolution; appears to be an Egyptian hieroglyphic label with multiple stacked signs.

Connections

Found at Lisht
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116252842 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.3.1708 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 551093 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.