Palette
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
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.
Photograph of a single, roughly oval stone palette with a mottled greenish staining/paint area on the upper surface and no clear carved decoration visible.
The object is shown as an oval, slightly flattened stone with rounded edges. The upper surface displays a dark green mottled patch concentrated near the center, consistent with pigment staining or remaining colorant residue. The stone surface is otherwise plain and shows natural mottling and weathering. In the lower-left region there is a small set of printed/painted catalogue-style markings in red or brown ink, but no legible hieroglyphic inscription is visible. No carved figures, cartouches, or deity iconography can be confidently identified from this image. The catalogue’s characterization as an A-Group palette from Faras is not directly testable from imagery alone; however, the overall form (stone palette) is broadly consistent with such artifacts.
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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.