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

Facsimile painting from the temple of Thutmose III

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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.

A painted facsimile features a large cartouche and the profile of an ancient Egyptian figure.

The image shows a detailed and colorful facsimile of an ancient Egyptian art piece. It includes a prominent cartouche with a scarab beetle at its center, surrounded by hieroglyphs. Adjacent to the cartouche is a profile of a person wearing a distinctive red crown, likely representing Upper Egypt. The artwork appears stylized with typical Egyptian artistic conventions such as rigid posture and profile view.

royal New Kingdom modern_reproduction
Materials papyrus
Signs scarab beetle was sceptre

Connections

Materials Papyrus
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