犬科动物的头部，可能是豺狼 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	犬科动物的头部，可能是豺狼
品名（英）	Head of a Canid, possibly a Jackal
入馆年号	1974年，1974.264
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 664
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 7.1 × 宽 4.8 × 深 6.7 厘米 (2 13/16 × 1 7/8 × 2 5/8 英寸)
介绍（中）	野生犬科动物的分类，例如埃及豺，Canis lupaster和生活在埃及沙漠边缘的野狗，甚至给动物学家带来了问题。因此，古埃及人在对神的描述中没有区分特定的犬科动物也就不足为奇了，例如墓地神阿努比斯;杜阿穆特夫，荷鲁斯的四个儿子之一;或Wepwawet，埃及中部城镇Asyut的神。这个精心建模的石膏头可以描绘这些神灵中的任何一个。石膏的使用和耳朵周围粗糙的、未建模的区域表明头部是在模具中铸造的。最近的研究表明，埃及艺术家使用各种精细分级的石膏材料来制作试炼件和成品艺术品。这个小头像与旧王国"储备"头像和来自阿玛纳艺术家工作室的著名新王国石膏肖像在一个班级中。在后一个车间，还进行了模具铸造。
介绍（英）	The classification of wild canids, for instance, the Egyptian jackal, Canis lupaster, and the wild dog living at the margins of the Egyptian desert, causes problems even for zoologists. It is not surprising, therefore, that the ancient Egyptians did not distinguish particular canid species in their representations of gods, such as the necropolis god Anubis; Duamutef, one of the four sons of Horus; or Wepwawet, the god of Asyut, a town in Middle Egypt. This sensitively modeled plaster head could have served to depict any of these deities. The use of plaster and the rough, unmodeled area around the ears indicate that the head was cast in a mold. Recent research has shown that Egyptian artists used a variety of finely graded plaster materials for trial pieces and finished works of art.This small head is in a class with Old Kingdom "reserve" heads and the famous New Kingdom plaster portraits from an artist's studio at Amarna. In the latter workshop, mold casting was also practiced.