Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Birds in a cage and offering bearers
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 carved limestone relief fragment depicting a scene with a falcon.
This artifact is a limestone relief fragment showing a falcon with intricate detailing on the feathers, typical of ancient Egyptian artistry. The composition includes a grid of hieroglyphs below the falcon, suggesting possible inscriptions or decorative text. The style is indicative of Egyptian relief work, with emphasis on symbolic representation.
decorative
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
falcon
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414455 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 65.59.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545866 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.