Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Mesu Smelling a Lotus
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 fragment of a limestone relief depicting a figure holding a lotus flower.
This fragmentary limestone relief shows a profile view of a figure, possibly female, holding a lotus flower in one hand. The carving style is typical of Egyptian art, with attention to linear details and emphasis on the profile form. The piece is notably worn and parts of the figure are missing due to the fragmentary condition.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116282240 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 50.19.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546032 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.