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.

Limestone wall relief fragment showing incised/raised Egyptian figures and vertical registers, with parts of hieroglyphic text on a damaged surface.

The image shows a rectangular, weathered limestone relief fragment in shallow carving. The surviving scene is arranged in vertical zones: on the left is part of a standing or seated figure framed by a border line; in the middle and right are additional adjacent figure spaces suggested by the contour of torsos/heads and curved background lines. A few hieroglyphic signs are visible in raised/incised form near the upper portion, including a column-like arrangement, but most of the text is too damaged to read confidently. The lower register is cut off, with only the top edge of a horizontal border line and faint remnants of additional signs/figures visible. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is apparent.

religious New Kingdom, Ramesside (consistent with Ramesses I chapel context, though the specific king name is not readable here) fragmentary
Deities unknown
Royals unknown
Materials limestone
Signs undetermined hieroglyphic signs (damaged) ×3

Connections

Found at Abydos
Royals Ramesses I
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