Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture

Fragment of relief plaque with a child god, inscribed on reverse

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Description

Limestone

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.

Relief-carved limestone fragment showing the upper body and a raised hand holding a small object or symbol; the face and details are weathered and partially lost.

The image depicts a broken fragment of a relief plaque made of light-colored stone (consistent with limestone). In relief, a seated or standing child-sized figure is suggested by the proportion of the head and torso. One arm is raised with the hand open or pinched around a small element, while the other arm/shoulder area is partially obscured by breaks. The head and facial features are too worn to identify specific iconographic attributes (e.g., distinct crowns, sidelock patterns, or clear youth-god features) with confidence. The background field is plain, with no clearly legible hieroglyphs visible in the photographed face of the object; any inscription may be on the reverse, but the provided image does not show the reverse inscription area. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

religious Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (consistent with catalogue; exact date unclear from image alone) fragmentary
Deities child god (specific deity unknown/unclear from available view)
Materials limestone

Connections

Found at Hibis

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116252896 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 25.10.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 571362 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.