Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Ax head with cynocephalus
Description
Bronze or copper alloy
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.
An ancient Egyptian relief depicting a baboon figure under an arched structure.
The relief shows a stylized baboon standing upright with both arms outstretched, positioned within an arched frame. The baboon, which holds significant symbolic meaning in Egyptian mythology, may represent Thoth, the god of wisdom and writing. The style is simplistic, focusing on the essential features of the baboon. The composition suggests a focus on balance and symmetry, common in Egyptian reliefs.
religious
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246381 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 25.2.15 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544817 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.
- 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.