Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief with palace attendant
Description
Sandstone
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 depicting a person making an offering at an altar.
The artifact is a limestone relief showing a figure in a profile view, kneeling and extending their arms towards an offering table. This individual appears to be wearing a simple garment. The scene includes an altar with offerings and is flanked by stylized floral or columnar motifs on either side, indicating a structured and balanced composition typical of Egyptian artwork.
religious
Old Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243226 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 65.129 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545873 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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