Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Relief with offerings
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.
An artifact depicting stylized marsh plants and a central round object, possibly a fruit.
The artifact features a relief style with stylized representations of marsh plants on either side of a round central object that resembles a fruit or bulb. The composition is symmetrical, with repetitive patterns contributing to a sense of balance. The object suggests a decorative scene typical of Egyptian relief work.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245921 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1991.237.55 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544974 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.