Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Ostracon depicting an animal fable or myth in the upper register and a princess (?) in the lower
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 ancient Egyptian painted plaster depicting two figures.
This fragment shows part of two figures with Egyptian iconography, painted on plaster. The top figure appears to be humanoid with a possible bird-like head, suggestive of deities or symbolic beings in Egyptian art. The lower figure seems to be more human, featuring stylized elements typical of Egyptian portraiture. The painting includes red and black line work, characteristic of ancient Egyptian fresco techniques.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
plaster
Connections
Materials
Plaster
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243297 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 60.158 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545800 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.