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

Fragment from a battle scene depicting a foreigner throwing a spear and holding a distinctive shield

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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, roughly rectangular limestone relief panel with traces of pigments showing part of a human figure in profile and faint background lines; no clear spear, distinctive shield, or battle-action details are preserved in the visible portion.

The image shows a broken fragment of a stone relief (limestone) with a light ground and limited remaining paint remnants (reddish-brown and darker pigment marks). The upper register has shallow incised/relief lines resembling scene borders or structural framing. In the lower portion, a single male figure is depicted in profile facing left, with curly or textured hair, an angular face, and a hand/arm raised near the chest. The figure’s body is only partially preserved, and the lower right area is damaged. No clearly identifiable foreigner, spear-throwing gesture, or distinctive shield shape can be confirmed from the preserved contours; any such elements are either missing due to breakage or too indistinct to assert. Faint marks above and around the figure may belong to additional figures or decorative/scene lines, but they are not legible as hieroglyphs.

decorative Middle Kingdom (as catalogued; exact date uncertain from fragmentary imagery) fragmentary
Materials limestonepaint (traces of pigment)

Connections

Royals Senwosret I
Materials LimestonePaint

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116249201 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 13.235.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544150 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.
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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.