Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Preparing and Cooking Cakes, Tomb of Rekhmire
Description
Paper, tempera paint, ink
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.
Depiction of ancient Egyptian workers involved in bread and beer production.
The image shows a painted scene depicting two registers of ancient Egyptian workers engaged in food preparation activities. The upper register features a worker stirring or baking bread in an oven, with loaves shown above. The lower register portrays a figure kneading dough or working with a grinding stone. The colors are bold, with prominent use of red and ochre on a flat beige background, typical of Egyptian tomb art style.
daily life
New Kingdom
good
Materials
paintplaster
Signs
bread loaves ×6
vessel ×2
Cross-references (4)
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