Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
North Wall of Nakht's Offering Chapel
Description
Tempera on paper
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.
The image depicts a scene of offering and daily life activities in an ancient Egyptian setting.
The artifact features multiple scenes with individuals engaged in offering and daily life activities. The composition utilizes hierarchical scaling to differentiate between the figures, with larger figures possibly being of higher status. The colors are vibrant with reds, whites, and greens prominent, characteristic of New Kingdom tomb paintings. Significant portions of the artifact are missing, affecting the continuity of the scenes.
daily life
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
plasterpaint
Signs
ankh
djed ×2
Was sceptre
Visible text
"Fragmentary hieroglyphs present, but not readable"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415543 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.5.19f tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548582 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.