Relief with floral and fructal wall decoration
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 carved limestone relief fragment showing a procession of fish.
The artifact is a fragmentary limestone relief likely depicting a procession of fish, executed in a typical ancient Egyptian style. The carving shows a series of evenly spaced fish figures, and a detailed woven basket is visible on the right. The relief may have been part of a larger scene related to daily life, focusing on aspects of fishing or agriculture. The composition is straightforward and linear, exhibiting the characteristic style of low relief with attention to simple yet effective detail.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413778 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1991.237.63 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544982 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.