Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Mason's Float Model
Description
Wood (Pine)
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 model of a bed with a raised curved structure.
The artifact appears to be a small model crafted from clay or a similar material, depicting a bed with a distinctive curved headrest, resembling known designs from ancient Egypt. It has a simplistic style without additional decorations or inscriptions observable, potentially used in funerary contexts to represent provisions for the afterlife.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248031 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 31.3.65 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544311 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.