Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · cosmetic_object
Palette A-GroupFaras
Description
A-Group, ca. 2960–2649 B.C. Calcite. L. 13.4 × W. 8.3 × Th. 1.3 cm (5 1/4 × 3 1/4 × 1/2 in.). From: Cemetery 3, Grave 126, Faras, Lower Nubia, Nubia (Sudan). Excavation: University of Oxford Excavations in Nubia 1911–1912. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1913.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Connections
Found at
Faras
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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.