Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Relief, filling jars with wine
Description
Limestone
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 fragmented limestone relief depicting seated figures and hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a fragmented limestone relief showcasing partially visible seated figures and accompanying hieroglyphs. The composition likely features a scene of offering or a ritual, typical of ancient Egyptian art. The style is characteristic of the low relief commonly used in temple or tomb decorations, displaying deliberate cuts into the stone surfaces with figures arranged in a horizontal register.
funerary
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
seated man ×2
offering table
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280899 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.3.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546715 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.