Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · funerary_equipment
Falcon in double crown surmounting a shrine shaped box for an animal mummy Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
Description
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 664–30 B.C. Cupreous metal, precious metal. L. 17 × W. 4.2 × H. 10.5 cm (6 11/16 × 1 5/8 × 4 1/8 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Falcons. Credit: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
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Materials
Cupreous MetalPrecious Metal
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