Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Miniature coffin for funerary figurine of Queen Neferu
Description
Painted wood
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 containing a small mummy or figurine with hieroglyphic inscriptions on the outside.
The image depicts a wooden box, partially open, revealing what appears to be a small mummy or figurine inside. The box is rectangular and rests on four short legs. Hieroglyphs are inscribed on both the front and inner surfaces of the box lid, suggesting its purpose might be religious or funerary. The overall condition of the box is moderately worn, consistent with age.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
wood
Signs
kneeling man ×2
reed leaf ×3
Visible text
"nTr nfr nb x:w"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413520 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 25.3.244b, c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544338 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.