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

The King and Horus, Tomb of Haremhab

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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.

Egyptian-style painted scene of two standing figures wearing royal nemes/striped headcloths and elaborate regalia, facing a central column of symbols.

The image shows a symmetrical composition: two male-presenting figures stand side by side, both with striped nemes-like headcloths and gold-toned skin tones, wearing layered collars, broad patterned kilt or short skirt elements, and arm ornaments. The left figure raises one hand in a gesture of offering/holding while the right figure faces inward with an arm extended downward. Between them is a vertical panel containing multiple colored schematic elements and horizontal rows of symbols resembling hieroglyphic/amuletic signs, framed by decorative bands. The background is a pale wash with decorative border bands at top and bottom. There is a thin grey/blue architectural frame-like border. No clear cartouche (ringed oval) or legible royal name is visible at this resolution.

royal Egyptian New Kingdom-inspired painting; image appears to be a modern/20th-century reproduction or study rather than an original New Kingdom artifact (catalogue ground truth: Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom). good
Materials painted surface on paper (tempera, per catalogue)
Signs vertical column of schematic hieroglyph-like symbols (unreadable at this resolution) ×20
Visible text "Small printed/curatorial text along the bottom border; exact wording is not fully legible in this image."

Connections

Deities Horus
Royals Horemheb

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116432747 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 23.2.86 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 557795 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.