Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Painter's Palette Inscribed with the Name of Amenhotep III
Description
Ivory, pigment
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.
An ancient Egyptian paint palette displaying several wells for pigments.
The artifact is a rectangular paint palette made from wood with several oval-shaped wells designed to hold different pigments used by artists in ancient Egypt. The palette shows traces of various colors, suggesting it was used for mixing paints. Notable features include hieroglyphic inscriptions near the edge, possibly representing the name or rank of the owner.
daily life
New Kingdom
good
Materials
wood
Signs
reed
Connections
Materials
Wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413614 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.1294 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544518 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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