Wall painting of a cat killing a serpent

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A polychrome painted scene shows a striped cat attacking or killing a serpent-like creature among stylized foliage.

The image is a horizontal wall-painting composition on a rectangular support. On the left, a dense, leafy plant motif fills part of the background. Center-left, a forward-facing cat with a striped coat stands in profile, tail raised and body tense. The cat extends its front paws toward a long serpent-like animal on the right. The serpent is light blue with darker speckled markings and a red eye visible near the midsection; its head appears near the cat’s forelimbs. A dark diagonal line behind the cat and serpent may represent a shadow or contour element within the paint design. The palette includes ochres, light blues, dark outlines, and greenish foliage. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text are visible in the provided image. The catalogue states tempera on paper and a subject of a cat killing a serpent; the depicted subject matches this description visually. The period is given as Twentieth Century (original New Kingdom, Ramesside Period) and the findspot as Deir el-Medina; the image itself does not provide evidence to contradict these attributions.