Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Tile from Side of Stairway to Dais
Description
Faience, Paste
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.
Illustration of an ancient Egyptian architectural feature with decorative details.
The image depicts an architectural structure featuring a lion-headed figure guarding a corner. The sides are adorned with relief carvings of reclining figures and framed by a series of vertical elements resembling reeds or columns. The structure itself appears stepped, with a stylized pattern on the top.
decorative
unclear
modern_reproduction
Materials
unknown
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415482 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 35.1.11 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548444 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.