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Coffin of Khnumnakht

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Description

Wood, paint

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 decorated ancient Egyptian sarcophagus with vibrant paintings and hieroglyphs.

The artifact is a rectangular sarcophagus covered in intricate and colorful decorative artwork. The sides are adorned with columns of hieroglyphs and pictorial representations, one of which includes the depiction of a deity figure. The artwork exhibits typical Egyptian motifs with ordered, symmetrical compositions and vivid colors.

funerary New Kingdom good
Deities Nut
Materials woodpaint
Signs ankh ×3 djed ×2

Connections

Found at Meir
Deities Nut
Materials WoodPaint

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q29385785 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.2.2a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544326 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • 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.