Scene of Animal Husbandry
Description
Object Label: The motifs of a herdsman leading a bull through a thicket and a man assisting at the birth of a calf were most common in Egyptian art during the Old and Middle Kingdoms (before 1800 B.C.). It is likely that they were known to the carvers of these two reliefs indirectly through sources such as master pattern books. Catalogue description: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Scene of Animal Husbandry, ca. 670–650 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 5 9/16 x 7 in. (14.2 x 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 55.3.2. (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 relief depicting a man holding a staff and a large animal.
The relief is carved from limestone and shows a human figure wearing a traditional wig, holding a staff, and interacting with a large animal, possibly an antelope. The composition is simple, focusing mainly on the relationship between the man and the animal. Notable features include the detailed carving of the man's hair and the animal's body posture.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 55.3.2 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3610 tier-2
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- 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.
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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.