Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Donkey with packs on its back
Description
Clay, twigs
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 clay figurine depicting a camel carrying a load on its back.
The artifact is a small clay figurine representing a camel burdened with a stack of rounded, smooth objects secured by a strap. The form is rudimentary, with simplistic features to represent the animal and its load. It demonstrates a focus on conveying the idea of transportation of goods, likely made as a depiction of daily life or trade.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246456 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 12.181.272b–k tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544787 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.