Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief Depicting the Nurse Tia
Description
Limestone, paint
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 limestone relief depicting a figure holding an offering.
The artifact is a limestone relief showing a finely carved figure in profile, holding an offering vessel. The artwork is detailed, highlighting the intricate patterns on the figure’s clothing and headgear. Hieroglyphs are inscribed beside the figure. The relief features the traditional Egyptian artistic style with characteristic poses and stylization.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
reclining man
bread loaf ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247574 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1985.328.5 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544674 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.