Palette
Description
Palette, rectangular. Predynastic Period-Dynasty I, ca. 3850–2960 B.C. Greywacke. From: Dendera, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: EEF excavations, 1897–98. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898.
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.
Rectangular stone palette with rounded corners and a smooth, undecorated surface.
The image shows a flat, rectangular object with rounded edges, photographed against a light background. The face visible appears largely plain and polished/burnished, with minor scratches and chips. There are no clearly readable hieroglyphic signs, no painted or carved iconography visible, and no discernible bowls/grooves for pigments in this particular view. No cartouches, royal names, or deity figures can be confidently identified. Condition appears worn with surface abrasions and small losses. Material type cannot be confirmed from the photo alone, but it is consistent in general appearance with the museum's catalogued greywacke palette. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.
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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.
- 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.