Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Painted Plaster Pavement Fragment
Description
Stucco with blue, green, yellow, and brown pigments
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 mural depicting a bird amidst colorful foliage.
The artifact is a painted mural featuring a bird perched among intricately depicted green and blue plants. The style is typical of Egyptian art, with stylized forms and vibrant colors. The composition is balanced with emphasis on the central bird figure. Notable features include the detailed rendering of the plumage and the fluid forms of the surrounding vegetation.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
plasterpaint
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116275295 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.2.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548432 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.