This is a ceramic tomb figure of a camel. The camel is standing with no load on its back, facing forward as if facing toward the destination. The camel figure is hollow in the belly. The detailed texture and the color tell how meaningful the camel is to the tomb owner.
Image from the Carleton College archives, colorized using AI tool DeOldify (https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify) hosted on DeepAI (https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/colorizer).
