Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief with people setting down braziers
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 relief depicting standing human figures in profile.
The artifact is a fragmentary limestone relief showing three human figures in profile, possibly engaged in a ceremonial or everyday scene. The figures are carved in low relief with angular and elongated limbs, showcasing typical stylistic features of Egyptian art. Despite wear, the composition is balanced, and the figures are dressed simply, indicating a possible scene of daily life or simple ritual.
daily life
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245822 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1991.240.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545010 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.