Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief block depicting plucking and roasting fowl and herds crossing water
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.
Limestone relief depicting a daily life scene with fishing and fowling activities.
The relief illustrates figures engaged in fishing and fowling activities, typical of scenes depicting daily life in ancient Egypt. The style includes detailed carvings of figures using nets, with depictions of fish and birds. Notable features include the dynamic poses of the individuals and the variety of animals shown. The composition is organized in horizontal registers, a common style in Egyptian reliefs.
daily life
Old Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281966 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.1164 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546098 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.