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

Facsimile painting of Mentuherkhepeshef

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Description

Facsimile, Mentuherkhepeshef (TT 20). New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1504–1458 B.C. Tempera on paper. framed: h. 7 5/8 in; w. 17 1/4 in. From: Tomb of Mentuherkhepeshef (TT 20), Valley of the Kings, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1948.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

The image shows a photographic/documentation view of a sheet with multiple small painted or colored motifs resembling Egyptian funerary wall fragments, arranged across a light background.

Across the sheet are several separate, block-like painted areas containing stylized blue/teal and red elements, including patterned zigzags and geometric borders that resemble decorative panels from Egyptian tomb wall painting. The central area includes one larger motif with wavy/striped blue bands and red zigzag accents. Additional smaller motifs to the right and left show similar palette and border patterns, suggesting facsimile copies or a compilation of fragments rather than a single continuous scene. At the very top, there is handwritten cursive text in English-like script; the legibility is partial, but it appears to reference "Funerary" and possibly "stone" and/or "plaster" and includes additional bracketed notes. No clear hieroglyphic inscriptions are visible within the motifs themselves, and no legible royal names or cartouches can be confidently identified. The image appears to be a modern documentation of painted reproductions rather than an original tomb painting fragment.

funerary New Kingdom (catalogue ground truth); image itself is consistent with funerary wall-painting style but exact dating cannot be confirmed from the image alone. modern_reproduction
Materials painted surface on paper (facsimile/documentation sheet)
Visible text "Handwritten top caption appears in cursive; partially readable text includes "Funerary" and "plaster" (exact wording unclear)."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Handwritten top caption appears in cursive; partially readable text includes "Funerary" and "plaster" (exact wording unclear).

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