Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Scribe's Palette and Brushes
Description
Wood, ink, reed
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A wooden board accompanied by four elongated items, likely writing implements.
The image depicts a wooden writing palette, often used in ancient Egypt for holding writing instruments. The palette has a worn appearance, with a rectangular indentation that likely held ink or other materials. Accompanying the palette are four slender sticks, possibly styluses used for writing on papyrus.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248056 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 14.1.393a–d tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544302 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.