Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Tile with fish and lotus flowers in a canal
Description
Polychrome faience
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 decorative artifact depicting a fish and water plants.
The artifact consists of a rectangular piece featuring a central depiction of a fish surrounded by stylized water plants. The composition is decorative with wavy lines suggesting water. The artwork is detailed with attention to naturalistic features of the fish and context, likely indicating a focus on the natural or daily life scenes.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestonepaint
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116234900 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 35.1.104 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548434 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.