Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief with officials before a temple
Description
Limestone, paint (mostly modern)
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 fragment featuring red and orange vertical bands and an engraved bird figure.
The artifact is a rectangular limestone fragment with two prominent vertical bands painted in red and orange. On the left, there is an engraved depiction of a bird, which appears to be stylistically rendered. To the right, there are several smaller decorative elements reminiscent of typical Egyptian motifs. The style indicates the use of simple, bold lines characteristic of decorative architectural elements.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245985 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1991.237.44 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544963 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.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.