Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Userhat and Wife Receiving Offerings, Tomb of Userhat

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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 scene depicting a seated couple receiving offerings with a backdrop of a fig tree.

The scene shows a well-dressed couple seated under a fig tree, accompanied by a servant presenting offerings. The style is characteristic of detailed, colorful tomb paintings with intricate patterns on clothing and headdresses. The composition centers around the tree, symbolizing life, with the offerings reinforcing themes of sustenance and prosperity.

funerary New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials paintlimestone

Connections

Materials LimestonePaint

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116235391 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.4.33 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545135 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.