Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Relief with ship and campfire
Description
Limestone, paint (mostly modern)
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.
Limestone fragment depicting a reclining animal and partial structures.
The artifact is a limestone fragment featuring a relief of a reclining animal, possibly a jackal, which is often associated with Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of mummification and the afterlife. Below the animal, there are partial geometric shapes that might represent architectural or symbolic structures. The style is typical of Egyptian relief work, emphasizing outlines and simple forms.
funerary
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413798 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1991.240.11 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545017 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.