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

Making Leather Rope, 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.

Depiction of a man fishing with a net in an ancient Egyptian scene.

The image shows a painted scene of an Egyptian man standing while holding a fishing net. The background features typical Egyptian mural colors and artistic style, with evident damage and fading, characteristic of ancient wall paintings. The figure is adorned with traditional Egyptian attire indicative of daily life. The posture and objects suggest an activity related to sustenance and work.

daily life New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials paintplaster

Connections

Materials PaintPlaster

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q96185113 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 31.6.32 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544633 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).
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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.