Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Dog Named Ebony Under Owner's Chair, Tomb of Duaerneheh
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 animal head, possibly a dog, within a framework with hieroglyphs.
The artifact shows an artfully rendered animal head, likely representing a dog or a related creature, set against a background that carries faint hieroglyphs. The style displays a sketch-like approach, with attention to the animal's features and an abstracted surrounding framework. Notable is the contrast between shaded areas and the pale backdrop, indicating composition from a worn fresco or similar medium.
decorative
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
plasterpaint
Signs
unknown ×2
Cross-references (4)
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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).
- 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.