Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Nebamun Supervising Estate Activities, Tomb of Nebamun
Description
Tempera on paper
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 detailed and colorful depiction of agricultural scenes with multiple figures and activities.
The artifact shows a vibrant and intricate series of scenes related to agriculture and daily life in ancient Egypt. The composition is organized into registers, depicting figures involved in various farming and livestock activities. Notable features include scenes of plowing, harvesting, and herding cattle, showing a rich representation of daily life tasks. The artwork demonstrates a mastery of stylized human and animal forms, with detailed hand gestures and tools.
agricultural
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
paintplaster
Signs
Ankh ×3
Djed
Visible text
"unclear"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245401 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.4.57 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545114 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.