Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Tablet with Chariot Scene
Description
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 person is depicted riding a chariot pulled by a lion on a blue faience background.
The artifact is a rectangular tile made from blue faience, featuring a scene where a person stands in a chariot drawn by a lion. The composition is linear and stylized, with black line drawings illustrating the figures. Plant motifs and circular designs surround the scene, adding decorative elements. The style suggests a blend of artistic motifs, possibly indicative of Egyptian influence.
decorative
Ptolemaic
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116275197 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.194.2297 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548483 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.