Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · funerary_equipment

Footboard from a cartonnage case

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 90.6.87. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 90.6.87
Period: Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
Date: 4th–late 1st century BC
Date range: 400 BCE – 30 BCE
Materials: ['linen', 'paste', 'paint']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Footboard from a cartonnage case (90.6.87). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/215703

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Cartonnage footboard. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 4th–late 1st century BC. Linen, paste, paint. H. 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.); W. 22 cm (8 11/16 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Human Figures, Prisoners. Credit: Gift of James Douglas, 1890.

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.

Rectangular, painted plaster/cartonnage footboard segment with two vertical columns of scenes and a central vertical strip of hieroglyphs, framed by red borders.

The object is a roughly rectangular, padded-looking panel with rounded upper corners and a thickened lower edge. It is painted in red, white/cream, and dark figures. Two tall, nested panels occupy the left and right sides, each containing multiple registers of miniature figures and animals. A vertical central band of cream background separates the two sides; along this band are dark hieroglyphs. The lower edge shows traces of blue-green pigment and possible decorative border elements. Surface paint loss and abrasion are visible, particularly at the corners and along edges, but the overall layout—central inscription band flanked by repeated vignette registers—matches a funerary cartonnage-style decoration. The image does not show any cartouche with a clearly legible royal name, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

funerary Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (consistent with cartonnage-style painted funerary elements) good

Materials paintpastelinen (uncertain; assumed from cartonnage context)

Signs Vertical column of hieroglyphs (exact signs uncertain) ×8

Visible text "Vertical band contains multiple dark hieroglyphic signs; exact transcription unclear from image resolution."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

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Vertical band contains multiple dark hieroglyphic signs; exact transcription unclear from image resolution.

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Materials Paint Paste

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