Viscera figure with jackal head (Duamutef)
Description
Mud, wax
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.
Small, mummiform/figurine-like Egyptian artifact with an upright form and a protruding, animal-like head at the top.
The image shows a small, brown, worn object standing upright against a white background. The lower portion is narrow and columnar, with rough surface modeling. At the top there is a rounded, animal-headed or jackal-like profile with a defined snout and ears, though fine facial details are eroded. There are no clearly legible hieroglyphs or inscriptions visible on the photographed surfaces. No pigments, applied wax, or readable manufacturing seams are clearly distinguishable from the degraded mud-like surface. The overall style and the animal head are consistent in general with a viscera-figure/balancing shrine component, but the specific “Duamutef” jackal-headed attribution cannot be fully confirmed from the image alone due to erosion and lack of associated text.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116275698 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 25.3.156c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 577423 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.