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

Facsimile Painting of a Foreigner, Tomb of Intef

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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.

Fragmentary painting of an ancient Egyptian figure holding bows.

This image depicts a fragmentary wall painting showing a man with a dark coiffure. He appears to be in motion, wearing a reddish-brown garment or skin. The man is holding several bows, suggesting a martial or hunting scene. The artwork is typical of the Egyptian style, with the figure portrayed in profile and with detailed facial features.

military New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials plasterpaint

Connections

Materials PaintPlaster

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q96185063 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 31.6.35 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544578 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.
  • 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.