Cat Coffin with Mummy
Description
Caption: Cat Coffin with Mummy, 664–332 B.C.E.. Wood, gesso, pigment, linen, animal remains, 24 7/8 × 10 3/16 × 17 5/16 in. (63.2 × 25.9 × 44 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1941E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A wooden statue of a seated cat on a rectangular base.
The artifact is a wooden statue depicting a seated cat, which was often associated with the goddess Bastet in ancient Egyptian culture. The style is simplistic, yet captures the serene posture typical of feline statues. The surface shows significant wear and some cracks, indicating its age. The statue is mounted on a rectangular wooden base, which is also visibly aged and worn.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1941E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118446 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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