Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture

Relief with a billy goat

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Description

Limestone

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 limestone relief depicting an ibex and another animal.

The artifact is a limestone relief showing an ibex with prominent curved horns walking alongside another animal, possibly a cow or bull. The relief is carved in a simplistic style with minimal detail, typical of certain periods in Egyptian art. The surface appears worn, indicating age and exposure to elements.

daily life unknown good
Materials limestone

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116252351 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 22.1.20 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 543892 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.