Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · funerary_equipment

Woman Kneeling Before an Offering Table

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Description

<p>Traces of red grid lines can be seen in this fragmentary painting from a tomb wall. It depicts a half-kneeling, half-squatting, woman in front of an offering table. The grid was used in ancient Egypt to assure the right proportions and layout of paintings and reliefs.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/32.2' rel='external'>Woman Kneeling Before an Offering Table</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

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 Egyptian wall relief showing a kneeling woman in profile facing an offering table, alongside seated figures and a large animal/bowl-like element on the left.

The image appears to be a fragment of painted mud-plaster with distemper paint. On the right, a human figure (likely a woman) kneels on the floor and faces left toward an offering area. The figure has dark hair and a black-lined facial profile; a light garment is painted over the torso, and a band-like strap or sash is visible across the upper body. The woman extends her arms toward/along an object in front of her, consistent with participation in offering. Between the kneeling figure and the left side, an offering table or stand is indicated by a dark vertical support and a lighter top surface. On the left side, additional painted elements include a seated or standing male figure in a dark kilt and apron-like garment, and a large brown oval form with internal markings that resembles a vessel/animal-related element (exact identification is unclear). No readable hieroglyphs are visible in the provided crop. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

religious unclear (style consistent with New Kingdom/Third Intermediate–Late period painted plaster scenes, but not certain from this image alone) fragmentary
Materials distemper paintmud plasterpainted plaster background

Cross-references (2)

  • Walters-AccNum 32.2 tier-2
  • Walters-id 23169 tier-2
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