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

Fragment of relief

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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.

Triangular fragment of a painted limestone relief showing the side-profile head and shoulder of a human figure, with patterned vertical bands behind the head and a reddish triangular section below.

The object is a small, roughly triangular fragment with a flat back edge and a forward face that preserves painted relief details. On the right/center is a human head in left-facing side profile, with painted facial features (dark hair, light skin tone, and a small eye indicated). Behind the head is a vertical ribbed or fluted pattern painted in light blue/green. Below the head and extending across the fragment is a large reddish-brown triangular area, likely representing clothing or a larger compositional field from the original scene. No complete hieroglyphs, cartouches, or full figure body are preserved, and the remaining surfaces suggest chipping consistent with a relief fragment. No museum label text, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic is visible in the image.

religious Middle Kingdom (per catalogue) fragmentary
Materials limestone

Connections

Found at Lisht
Royals Amenemhat I

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116243569 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 13.235.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 555786 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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