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

Painting of Ramesses IX before the barque of Amun from the tomb of Imiseba

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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 horizontally oriented Egyptian-style painting shows multiple figures and registers of colorfully rendered scenes with accompanying hieroglyphic bands across the top and scattered in the composition.

The image depicts a flat, wall-painting-like composition arranged in horizontal registers. A central barque/boat-like element with a figure in front appears in the middle-left/middle area, while on the right a larger standing/attendant royal or high-status male figure in a headdress and striped garment faces toward the center. Several smaller figures and processional scenes appear in the left half, including a cluster of repeated small standing figures within a framed section. Color is predominantly ochre/yellow background with reds, greens, blues, and black outlines typical of illustrated reconstructions or painted copies. Hieroglyphs are visible as continuous decorative bands along the upper register; individual signs are present but too small/blurred for reliable identification of specific names beyond the general presence of hieroglyphic text. No clear Greek/Coptic/Arabic script is visible. A royal cartouche is not clearly legible at this resolution, and the specific identification as Ramesses IX and Imiseba cannot be confirmed from readable inscriptions in the provided image.

religious New Kingdom / Ramesside subject depicted; however executed as a modern painted work (catalogued as Twentieth Century). good
Deities Amun (suggested by catalogue title; not clearly readable/confirmable from legible signs in image)
Royals Ramesses IX (suggested by catalogue title; not clearly readable/confirmable from a legible cartouche in image)
Materials painted surface (tempera on paper per catalogue)
Signs unclear hieroglyphic sign forms (not legible enough to identify precisely) ×20

Connections

Deities Amun
Royals Ramesses IX

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q96185430 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 36.4.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 557839 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).
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.