Women at a Banquet
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.
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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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