Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Ostracon with fighting bulls
Description
Limestone, paint
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.
Fragment of an ostracon depicting two antelopes.
This piece is a painted ostracon showing two elegant antelopes in a dynamic composition. The style is characterized by fine linework and subtle shading, typical of ancient Egyptian art. The ostracon appears to be a fragment, with the animals outlined in black and filled with brown and white tones.
decorative
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247266 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 24.2.27 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544744 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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