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

Relief fragment from 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.

Photograph of a weathered limestone relief fragment showing part of a circular motif above a vertically arranged set of incised shapes resembling hieroglyphic or figure details.

The image depicts a rectangular stone fragment carved in shallow relief. The upper portion shows a broad, worn background with an incised circular element near the center-left, surrounded by faint contour lines. Below and to the right of the circle, there are several vertical and angled incised marks that could correspond to hieroglyphs or parts of a larger figure, but the worn surface and missing edges prevent confident identification. No clear cartouche, royal name, deity emblem, or legible inscription is preserved. The fragment edges suggest it is a piece detached from a larger mortuary or temple wall relief; overall details are heavily abraded.

decorative Middle Kingdom (catalogue ground truth; exact motifs not legible) fragmentary
Materials limestone
Signs circular/oval motif within a recessed outline (exact hieroglyph unknown)

Connections

Found at Lisht
Deities Horus
Royals Senwosret I
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116243982 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 1994.496.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545505 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.