Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Man Transporting a Hedgehog and a Hare, Tomb of Khnumhotep
Description
Tempera on paper
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.
Depiction of an Egyptian man carrying a yoke with baskets containing animals.
The image shows an Egyptian man with medium skin tone wearing a white kilt. He is balancing a yoke on his shoulder with two baskets. One basket holds fish, and the other contains cattle. The painting displays typical Egyptian profile art style with detailed coloration and simple background, characteristic of daily life scenes in ancient Egypt.
daily life
New Kingdom
good
Materials
papyruspaint
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