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

Reliefs from the tomb of Meketre

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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 painted plaster with layers of color visible.

The artifact is a fragment of painted plaster displaying layers of red, black, and white. There appear to be faint traces of paint which may have depicted figures or symbols originally. The fragment is irregularly shaped with visible wear and erosion, indicating its antiquity.

unclear unknown fragmentary
Materials plaster

Connections

Found at Asasif
Materials Plaster
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