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

Block of relief

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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.

Painted limestone relief block fragment with traces of polychrome decoration and incised/raised figures or symbols divided into rectangular registers.

The object is a horizontally oriented, broken fragment of a stone block with a flatter front face. The front is decorated with several vertical rectangular panels/registers bordered by lines. Visible paint includes a large orange-red field on the left, turquoise/blue-green paint near the upper center, and dark outlines/lines that define the panel boundaries; a cross-like or star-like motif in black/blue appears near the upper middle-left panel. Additional partially preserved shapes occupy the right side but are too fragmentary to identify confidently as specific hieroglyphs, figures, or iconographic attributes. No legible royal name cartouche is clearly preserved, and no inscriptions are unambiguously readable from the image at this resolution. Overall surface shows weathering and chipping along the edges and at the break points; paint survives only in areas, indicating a polychrome relief intended for visibility.

decorative Middle Kingdom (consistent with catalogue; specific reign/date unclear from fragment) fragmentary
Materials limestone (stone body)paint (traces of polychromy)

Connections

Found at Lisht
Royals Amenemhat I

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116243599 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.3.1159 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 555679 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.