Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Shroud of a Woman Wearing a Fringed Tunic
Description
Linen, paint (tempera)
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 painted depiction of a human figure on a wooden panel, featuring a frontal view of a person wearing elaborate clothing.
This artifact shows a detailed painted image of a person standing in a frontal pose. The individual is dressed in what appears to be a richly decorated garment with a halo-like oval around the head, typical of Roman funerary portraits from Egypt. The colors are vivid despite the aged surface, indicating the use of durable pigments. The style is realistic, aimed at capturing the likeness and personality of the subject.
funerary
Roman
fragmentary
Materials
woodpaint
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116277937 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 09.181.8 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547334 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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