Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Painted Restoration of the Hathor-Head Frieze in the Tomb of Senenmut

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Description

Tempera on paper

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.

The image shows an ancient Egyptian wall painting featuring multiple stylized faces with large headdresses and various hieroglyphic signs below.

This colorful wall painting depicts a row of stylized faces, possibly representing Hathor, with large, intricate headdresses. Below, there are several recognizable hieroglyphs including an Eye of Horus, a scarab beetle, and other symbols in a structured arrangement. The artwork is vibrant in shades of blue, gold, red, and black and follows a geometric composition typical of Egyptian artistic motifs intended for decorative and symbolic purposes.

decorative New Kingdom fragmentary
Deities Hathor
Materials paintplaster
Signs Eye of Horus Scarab Beetle

Connections

Deities Hathor
Materials PaintPlaster

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q96185053 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 37.4.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544563 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.