Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Model of a trussed ox
Description
Wood, 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.
A carved wooden object resembling a duck with painted details.
The artifact is a wooden carving shaped to resemble a duck, characterized by its elongated neck and rounded body. The wood shows signs of age with a worn texture and visible grain, and there are traces of black paint or pigment applied on the surface to highlight features such as the eyes and body markings. The style and composition suggest a simplified form emphasizing the silhouette of the bird.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251918 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.3.103 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544052 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.