Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Canopic chest of Hapiankhtifi
Description
Painted and gilded wood (Juniperus sp.)
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 box with intricate painted decorations featuring hieroglyphs and geometric patterns.
The artifact is a wooden box adorned with painted hieroglyphs and ornamental decorations. The top of the box shows an array of geometric designs, while the sides are decorated with rows of hieroglyphic inscriptions. The wood appears weathered, with visible cracks and some signs of wear, indicative of its age. Notable features include the combination of hieroglyphic script with decorative motifs and a small central rectangular panel on the side.
funerary
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
woodpaint
Signs
ankh ×2
djed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247996 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 12.183.14a–c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544327 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.