Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · relief_fragment

Women at a Banquet

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Description

Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose III–early Amenhotep II, A.D. 1925; original ca. 1479–1425 B.C. Tempera on paper. Image: H. 47.5 × W. 66.5 cm (18 11/16 × 26 3/16 in.), scale 1:1; Framed: 51.1 × 70.2 cm (20 1/8 × 27 5/8 in.). Original from: Tomb of Rekhmire (TT 100), Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Women, Drink-and-Be-Merry, Rekhmire-Exhibition. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1930.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Painted scene showing three figures in Egyptian style, with one woman standing and two women seated/attended, set against a light background and accompanied by a small column of hieroglyphs above.

The image depicts an Egyptian-themed painted composition in a rectangular frame. On the left, a standing female figure with a heavy wig and a columnar arm/hand gesture holds a small object toward the chest area. At the center, a seated/leaning female figure is shown in profile facing right, extending an arm toward a person or offering items. On the right, another female figure is seated in profile, turned toward the center figure; both seated figures wear yellow-gold wigs and have painted jewelry and patterned collars. Several small objects/resting items appear near the seated figures (including a small vessel/cup at the lower area). Above the center-left portion of the scene is a vertical column of small black hieroglyphic signs (some legible shapes but not enough to confidently provide a transliteration). No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic script is visible. Materials and technique are not directly confirmable from the image alone, though the catalogued medium is consistent with a modern painted work on paper.

daily life Catalogued as Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom (unclear/contradictory with the style and medium shown). good
Materials painted surfacepaper support (implied by catalog; not directly confirmable)pigment outlines and fill colors (gold/yellow, black, red accents)
Signs column of Egyptian hieroglyphs (vertical inscription) ×5
Visible text "Vertical column of hieroglyphs above the central figures; individual signs are not clearly legible enough for a reliable transcription."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Vertical column of hieroglyphs above the central figures; individual signs are not clearly legible enough for a reliable transcription.

Connections

Materials Painted Surface

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q96185341 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.4.78 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 557623 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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