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Hounds from Nubia, Tomb of Rekhmire

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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.

The image depicts a group of painted dogs in a procession.

The artwork features several dogs shown in profile, painted in a reddish hue with detailed collars and harnesses. The depiction is stylistically typical of ancient Egyptian art, using a flat perspective with a focus on linear forms and stylized details. Some parts of the fresco appear faded or damaged, indicative of its age.

daily life New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials paintplaster

Connections

Found at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Materials PaintPlaster

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q96185080 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.4.82 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544612 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.