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

Facsimile painting from the tomb of Rekhmire

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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 depiction of three men carrying large items and leading animals including a cheetah.

The scene shows three men involved in daily activities, possibly related to hunting or trading. The figures are rendered in a naturalistic style characteristic of ancient Egyptian art, with frontal shoulders and profile faces. The men are carrying goods over their shoulders, accompanied by animals like a cheetah. The coloration is typical of fresco work, using earthy tones.

daily life New Kingdom good
Materials paintplaster

Connections

Materials PaintPlaster

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q96185082 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.4.81 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544614 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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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.