Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief with a bird
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 relief depicting a bird in flight amidst tall plants.
The artifact features a relief carving of a bird with outstretched wings, flying among tall, stylized reeds or swamp plants. The carving style appears linear and somewhat abstract, common in Ancient Egyptian art aimed at depicting nature. The background is textured, highlighting the bird and plants in the foreground.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245805 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1992.86 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545029 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.