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

Man Carrying Loaves, Tomb of Rekhmire

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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.

The image depicts a man carrying goods on a yoke with baskets.

The scene illustrates a man, likely depicting an Egyptian laborer or servant, carrying a yoke across his shoulders with large baskets suspended from each end. The style is typical of ancient Egyptian art, featuring a profile view with a traditional Egyptian kilt. The color palette includes earth tones and the background has hieroglyphic inscriptions, though they are partially damaged.

daily life New Kingdom good
Materials paintplaster

Connections

Materials PaintPlaster

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q96185101 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 31.6.31 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544625 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.