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

Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

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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.

Stone relief showing a standing Egyptian figure in profile holding a long staff, with vertical columns of hieroglyphs beside and behind the figure.

The image depicts a rectangular carved limestone panel in low relief. A male figure stands frontally in profile, wearing a long kilt and a head covering topped by a high element; he holds a long staff in one hand, while the other hand grips a rectangular object. The relief surface is worn with cracks and missing edges, but multiple vertical hieroglyphic lines are visible along the left and right sides of the panel, and some signs extend above the figure. A partial curved element and column boundaries suggest the panel originally belonged to a larger chapel wall decoration. No clear cartouche text is legible at this resolution, and the specific named king (Ramesses I) cannot be confirmed from the visible text in this image. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic inscriptions are visible.

religious New Kingdom, Ramesside period (catalogue: Ramesses I chapel relief; image cannot confirm exact reign from legible signs) fragmentary
Materials limestone
Signs vertical column of hieroglyphs (individual signs not fully legible) ×10

Connections

Found at Abydos
Royals Ramesses I
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