Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Rectangular palette
Description
Greywacke
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 flat, rectangular stone palette with visible wear and cracks.
The artifact is a finely crafted flat stone palette with a rectangular shape. The surface exhibits signs of wear and some visible cracks, indicative of its age and historical use. The edges are smooth, and there is a small chip missing from one corner. The surface does not display any clear engravings or inscriptions, suggesting it may have served a practical purpose rather than decorative.
unclear
Predynastic
fragmentary
Materials
slate
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415035 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 35.7.60 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547131 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.