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 vertically incised drapery/garment folds and a horizontal band of evenly spaced marks along the lower edge.

The image depicts a rectangular fragment of Egyptian limestone relief with prominent, shallow-to-medium depth vertical grooves representing hanging textiles or the pleats of a garment. A central narrow vertical element suggests a column-like form or the edge of a figure’s clothing, flanked by broader, rounded folds. Across the bottom runs a horizontal register composed of repeated small incised rectangles/segments, possibly part of a border or line of hieroglyphic/ornamental bands; no clearly readable individual signs are distinguishable at this resolution. There are chips and losses around the perimeter and along the central fold lines, but the overall relief pattern is well preserved. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, royal titulary, or deity attributes are clearly visible, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text can be identified.

decorative New Kingdom (Ramesside), approximate—consistent with limestone relief style; exact subject unclear from visible fragment. fragmentary
Materials limestone

Connections

Found at Abydos
Royals Ramesses I
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