Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief Fragment Showing Waterfowl in a Clapnet
Description
Painted limestone
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 relief depicting various types of birds.
The artifact is a carved relief showing several birds, positioned in different orientations, suggesting a lively scene of avian life. The craftsmanship displays intricate detailing of feathers and body features, characteristic of New Kingdom artistry. The relief appears to be made from limestone and shows signs of weathering, indicating its age.
daily life
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251826 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 06.1231.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544089 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.