Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief fragment from the tomb of Meketre
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 fragment of an ancient Egyptian pottery shard.
The artifact is a small pottery shard with a reddish hue on one side, indicative of its original painted or glazed surface. The shard is irregular in shape with smoothed edges, suggesting it was part of a larger vessel or object. The style, while fragmentary, hints at a utilitarian object possibly used in daily life.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
clay
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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).
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