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

Offering Bearer, Pyramid Temple of Senwosret I

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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 painted fragment on paper shows a red-and-blue figure holding a band-like offering, with adjacent hieroglyphic text and a partially preserved head/body rendered in profile.

The image depicts a rectangular (irregularly cropped) painted papyrus-like sheet on a light ground. In the left/middle area, a human figure is shown in profile with a pale skin tone, red pigment for facial features and body contours, and blue accents (notably on a head area and on a small device/band). The figure’s arms extend forward; one hand grasps or presents a long, pale band or offering that stretches toward the right side. Above and behind the figure, a block of dark (possibly black/gray) hieroglyphs is preserved in a dense grid-like arrangement. On the upper left and right, there are scattered blue/red marks that may be decorative pigments or partially lost signs. No clearly legible cartouche or king’s full name is visible in the provided view. The overall style appears like a modern drawing/painting reproduction of an Egyptian scene rather than a direct ancient artifact surface, but the image alone does not allow a definitive determination beyond pigment style.

religious Middle Kingdom (ground-truth catalogue), though image quality/style does not allow firm independent dating fragmentary
Materials painted/inked hieroglyphscolored pigments (red, blue)paper support
Signs hieroglyphic text (dense grid block; individual signs not clearly legible) ×20

Connections

Found at Lisht
Royals Senwosret I
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