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

Mud Brick of Senimen

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Description

Mud

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 rectangular, mud-brick-like block with an impressed/pressed relief of Egyptian hieroglyphs across one face.

The image shows a weathered, gray-brown block with rough surfaces consistent with compacted mud or clay. The front face contains an incised/relief register of Egyptian hieroglyphs, appearing as a small, crowded vertical row with a larger sign above and smaller signs beneath, though the individual signs are not fully legible at this resolution. No clear royal cartouche is distinguishable, and no deities are reliably identifiable. There is no visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text. The overall presentation matches a brick or brick fragment bearing an inscription rather than a painted relief or sculpture.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom (catalogue ground truth; exact dynasty/king unclear from the image) fragmentary
Materials mud/clay
Signs unknown hieroglyph cluster ×10

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116386065 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 14.1.425 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 554353 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.