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

Facsimile painting from the 'Green Room' in the North Palace at Amarna

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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.

A long, decorative scene panel shows rows of colorful plant imagery and animal-like silhouettes beneath a patterned border, with scattered white rectangular fields and a blue-green band containing repeating glyph-like marks.

The image appears to depict a painted, mural-like strip divided into sections: at the top there are blue vertical architectural framing lines and a central frieze-like band. The main field contains dense, multicolored vegetation (greens, yellows, browns) with occasional larger white shapes that may be birds or highlights, and darker figures resembling animals integrated into the foliage. Along the bottom there is a prominent blue band with a repeating pattern that resembles stylized hieroglyphs or ornamental motifs, bordered by decorative black bands. Several blank white rectangular areas interrupt the pattern, possibly representing losses, mounting blanks, or reproduction gaps. No clear royal cartouches or named individuals are legible at this resolution, and no clearly readable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present. No specific deity iconography can be confidently identified from the visible forms.

decorative New Kingdom, Amarna Period (as catalogued); imagery style suggests a mural-style decorative frieze rather than an inscribed monument fragmentary
Materials painted surface (tempera-like)paper support (not directly verifiable from the image, but consistent with catalogue)
Signs ornamental/repeating glyph-like motif (not confidently legible) ×40

Connections

Materials PaintPlaster

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q96185333 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.4.136 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548565 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.
  • 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.