Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Model Bakery and Brewery from the Tomb of Meketre
Description
Wood, gesso, paint, linen
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 wooden model depicting a bakery and brewery scene from ancient Egypt.
The artifact is a wooden model showcasing a bakery and brewery, featuring small carved figures engaged in various stages of bread and beer production. The figures, painted in colors typical of ancient Egyptian art, are arranged within a rectangular box divided into sections. The scene includes detailed representations of baking and brewing implements, providing insight into daily life activities.
daily life
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
woodpigment
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248147 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.3.12 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544258 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.