Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Tile with water flowers in a canal
Description
Faience
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.
Fragmentary ostracon with painted floral and geometric motifs.
The artifact is a piece of a painted ostracon depicting detailed floral patterns, possibly lotus blossoms, and zigzag geometric designs. The imagery is painted with black, white, and hints of reddish tones on a brownish background. The use of naturalistic motifs and the style may indicate a decorative or daily life scene. The fragment shows careful brushwork and is likely part of a larger composition.
decorative
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413655 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 35.1.105 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544761 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.