Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Dog
Description
Faience, traces of blue glaze
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, weathered figurine depicting an animal, possibly a reclining cat.
The artifact is a small, possibly limestone figurine depicting an animal in a reclined position. The surface shows signs of wear and deterioration, with patches of remaining color, suggesting it was once painted. The figurine has simplistic features, lacking intricate detailing, likely due to age and erosion. The style resembles early Egyptian animal figurines used for decorative or symbolic purposes.
decorative
unknown
poor
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280735 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 08.200.34 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546785 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.