Bull's leg
Description
Furniture leg, Bull's leg. Early Dynastic Period, Dynasty 1, ca. 2960–2770 B.C. Ivory. H. 15 × W. 4.4 × D. 8.9 cm (5 7/8 × 1 3/4 × 3 1/2 in.). Said to be from: Abydos, Northern Upper Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1906.
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.
Ivory artifact shaped like a bull’s leg, standing upright on a base with a dark metal mounting support.
The image shows a small, carved ivory object shaped to resemble a bull’s lower leg/hoof, with a thick, rounded lower portion and a more tapered upper portion. The hoof area is stylized and slightly curved. Horizontal banding grooves encircle the lower section, suggesting decorative/representational detailing. The piece is mounted on a dark metal support rod attached at the top/back and presented upright on a rectangular display base. There appears to be a small handwritten/printed catalogue label (red text on white paper) on the top edge of the object; the content is not fully legible at this resolution. No clear carved Egyptian hieroglyphs, cartouches, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text are visible on the artifact surface itself. No deities are depicted explicitly; the subject appears to be an animal form consistent with the museum’s identification.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415251 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 06.1162.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547442 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.