Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Architectural Drawing of a Garden
Description
Plastered and painted wood
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 wall painting of a river scene with boats and geometric patterns.
The artifact depicts a scene with a series of boats on a river, accompanied by distinctive zigzag patterns representing water. The artwork is simplistic in style, typical of ancient Egyptian motifs, where emphasis is placed on geometric representation of natural elements. Particular attention is given to repetitive decorative elements, possibly symbolizing water movement.
daily life
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
zigzag water lines ×20
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246432 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 14.108 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544801 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.