Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Fragment of wall painting from the Tomb of Sebekhotep
Description
Tempera paint on mud plaster
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.
The image shows two men holding staffs with hieroglyphs to the right.
The artifact features two men in traditional Egyptian attire positioned prominently, each grasping a staff. They are part of a painted scene on plaster with a colorful yet faded background. On the right side of the scene, there is a vertical inscription comprised of hieroglyphs, suggesting a decorative and possibly narrative purpose. The composition and attire are indicative of New Kingdom tomb representations.
daily life
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
plasterpaint
Signs
reed ×3
owl ×2
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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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