Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Viscera Figure of Duamutef
Description
Wax
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 small statuette depicting an anthropomorphic figure with a jackal head.
The artifact is a carved statuette representing a figure bearing the head of a jackal, likely symbolizing a deity, dressed in a traditional pose with arms crossed. The style suggests refined carving techniques. The figure is presented with significant detail on the head and a simplistic form for the body, characteristic of ritualistic representations in ancient Egyptian culture.
religious
unknown
good
Deities
Anubis
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413672 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 06.1189a tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544798 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.