Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Outer coffin of Senebtisi
Description
Coffin: cedar, paint, gold leaf; Eye panel: gold leaf over stucco, travertine (Egyptian alabaster) and obsidian
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 Egyptian box featuring a pair of eyes on one side.
The artifact is a rectangular box made of wood, likely serving as a coffin or storage chest. The most notable feature is the depiction of a pair of eyes, possibly representing the protective Wadjet eyes, painted or inlaid on one side. The wood shows signs of aging, with some cracks and wear visible.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116248002 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 08.200.45a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544325 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.