Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Ostracon with a donkey
Description
Limestone, ink
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 fragment of limestone featuring a drawing of an animal head in black ink.
This is a fragmentary piece of limestone, likely an ostracon, with a black ink drawing of an animal head, possibly a horse or donkey. The animal's head is well-defined, with attention to details such as the eye and ear. The fragment also shows red guidelines, possibly used for alignment or proportion purposes.
daily life
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244907 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 23.3.8 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545205 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.