Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Facsimile of a painting in the tomb of Nebamun: dog seated beneath Its owner's chair
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.
A depiction of a seated dog-like figure on a colored pedestal.
The image shows a representation of a dog-like figure, possibly a deity or a symbol, seated on a pedestal. The figure is adorned with a colorful collar and the composition is characterized by distinct areas of color, including shades of orange, blue, and yellow. The artwork appears to be fragmentary with several portions missing or faded, revealing the substrate below.
decorative
unclear
fragmentary
Materials
paper
Connections
Materials
Paper
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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.