Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Model of slaughtered ox
Description
Limestone, paint
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 small, ancient Egyptian sculpture depicting a reclining bovine figure.
The image shows a small figure of a reclining bull, likely made from limestone. The sculpture is simplistic, with basic engravings detailing the body and facial features of the animal. The bull appears to have traces of red paint, indicating that it might have been colorfully decorated at some point. The condition is fragmentary, with visible wear and discoloration over time.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280884 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.94 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546671 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.