Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Two-Sided Plaque with Gazelles
Description
Faience
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 stone artifact depicting two jackals walking alongside each other.
This artifact features two carved jackals in relief, walking to the right. The style is consistent with Egyptian artistic traditions, where animals are often depicted in profile. The artwork includes detailed carving of the jackals' anatomy, set against a textured background to represent ground or foliage. Distinctive cross-hatching and geometric patterns are used above and behind the animals, highlighting the Egyptian penchant for decorative and symbolic detailing.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408193 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.20 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329785 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.