Figure of Recumbent Jackal
Description
Caption: Figure of Recumbent Jackal, ca. 664–30 B.C.E.. Wood, pigment, 7 3/4 × 3 × 14 in. (19.7 × 7.6 × 35.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1482E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A stone statue of a reclining animal, likely a jackal.
The artifact is a small, finely crafted stone statue depicting a reclining jackal. The statue showcases smooth lines and minimal details, in keeping with the stylistic tendencies of animal representations in ancient Egyptian art. The posture and shape are characteristic of depictions of Anubis, the Egyptian god associated with mummification and the afterlife.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1482E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118024 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- 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.