Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Viscera figure with jackal head (Duamutef)

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Description

Gum (Acacia tortilis)

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.

The image shows four small, dark and eroded, vertically oriented lumps/plaque-like fragments on a light background, possibly representing parts of a figurine or viscera-related object.

Four separate pieces are visible, each roughly rectangular to rounded-rectangular in silhouette and oriented vertically. Their surfaces are heavily weathered/crusted with mottled dark gray to brown coloration; edges are chipped and details are mostly obscured. No clear facial features (e.g., a jackal head) are discernible at this resolution, and there are no legible carved lines. The object appears to be non-porous, crusted, and irregular, consistent with a degraded artifact surface. No hieroglyphs or other scripts are visible, and no identifiable metal/painted inlays are apparent.

unclear Third Intermediate Period (per catalogue; details not confirmable visually) poor
Deities unknown
Materials unknown

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Deities HorusDuamutef

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116235302 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 25.3.155c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 577420 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.