Relief fragment: foreigner with feather in his hair and Nubian
Description
Limestone, paint
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 fragmentary limestone relief showing part of a human figure with a raised hand/arm and a feather-like element in the hair; portions of a second figure or attendant elements are suggested on the right edge.
The image shows a roughly triangular fragment of carved stone with low-relief modeling and incised detail. On the left/center there is a human head/hair mass with a protruding, feather-like form; the facial features are too incomplete to describe precisely. A large curved arm/upper body shape occupies the center-left, with vertical striations along the lower left area that could represent clothing/texture. On the right side, there is a border-like vertical element and additional relief carving that may belong to adjacent figures or surrounding decorative elements; small marks resembling grouped strokes could be remnants of text or ornament, but they are not clear enough to transcribe. No legible royal cartouche, deity determinative, or continuous hieroglyphic line is clearly preserved in the visible area. The object appears unpainted in the photograph (any original pigment is not clearly discernible).
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244051 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 13.235.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545478 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.