Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Relief with Birds in the Papyrus Thicket
Description
Limestone, paint
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 fragmentary limestone relief featuring birds and papyrus plants.
The artifact is a limestone relief depicting several birds standing among stylized papyrus plants. The composition is symmetrical, with vibrant colors including green, red, and ochre used to highlight the feathers of the birds and the petals of the papyrus. The artistic style suggests attention to naturalistic detail, typical of Egyptian art that celebrates wildlife.
daily life
Old Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244481 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 06.1231.3a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545290 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.