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

False Door, Tomb of Mentuherkhepeshef

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Description

Tempera on paper

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.

The image shows a wall-art style drawing of an Egyptian shrine/door-like composition with multiple stacked panels, painted columns and bands, and sections of register-like decoration and partial hieroglyphic signs.

The artifact image is a framed, light-background drawing/painting featuring a large central, arched/opening element surrounded by colored architectural bands. Multiple rectangular and trapezoidal areas in turquoise, green, red/orange, and beige suggest a false-door or shrine panel arrangement, with curled banding motifs and register-like layout. A central vertical face-like element is not clearly preserved as a full figure but includes painted eyes and facial features, accompanied by horizontal lines and small colored motifs on either side. Several small sign-like marks and short strokes appear within the right side panel, but the resolution and cropping prevent reliable reading of specific hieroglyphs. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. There are no clearly legible cartouches or royal titulary in the available image.

funerary Unclear from image details; catalogued as Twentieth Century depiction of an original New Kingdom false door. good
Materials paperpigment/paint
Signs Unidentified hieroglyphic strokes/signs (not legible)

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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.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.