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A fragment of stone shows a figure drawn in black. He stands with his body facing the viewer, his head turned to the side, in elaborate attire—a headdress, necklace, arm bands, and a garment on his lower half, He holds a staff topped with a ram's head.

Ostracon with a Drawing of a King

Ancient Egyptian · New Kingdom, mid-Dynasty 19–Dynasty 20, about 1213–1069 BCE

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Palette

Pale stone
 49% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.5:1
Charcoal
 33% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.8:1
Ink
 8% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.5:1
Mushroom
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1
Slate
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Ancient Egyptian
Date
New Kingdom, mid-Dynasty 19–Dynasty 20, about 1213–1069 BCE
Type
Painting
Medium
Limestone and pigment
Size
24.1 × 15.2 × 3.2 cm (9 1/2 × 6 × 1 1/4 in.)
Place
Egypt
Themes
Reading and letters
Main colour
Grey · lightness 50, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Purchase Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-28); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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