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

Name Panel from the Mortuary Complex of Senwosret 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.

Two tall limestone blocks/columns are shown in museum lighting, each carved with recessed panels and a large seated/standing human figure and surrounding hieroglyphic text blocks.

The image shows two adjacent vertical limestone pieces displayed upright. Each has a carved central panel with an outlined figure in profile/front, flanked by hieroglyphic signs and decorative borders. The upper portion includes a rounded or cartouche-like oval area within the surrounding relief. Lower sections include additional carved registers suggesting landscape or offerings. The faces and fine details are partially lost due to chips and the angle/lighting, but the layout clearly follows Middle Kingdom-style mortuary name/offerings panel composition with hieroglyphic bands and figure(s) in relief. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible; only Egyptian-style hieroglyphic carving is present. A small freestanding limestone statue is visible between the two panels but it is not part of the catalogue object in the foreground; no readable cartouche for Senwosret I is clearly confirmed from the image alone.

religious Middle Kingdom (likely Senwosret I era), Lisht South context per catalogue good
Materials limestone
Signs Egyptian hieroglyphic groups (exact signs unclear due to wear/angle) ×30

Connections

Found at Lisht
Deities Horus
Royals Senwosret I
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116252139 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 34.1.206 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545500 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • 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.