Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Dog Named Ebony Under Owner's Chair, Tomb of Duaerneheh

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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

Connections

Materials PaintPlaster

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q96185056 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 39.4.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544569 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • 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.