Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Coffin of Ikhet
Description
Sycomore 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 decorated ancient Egyptian sarcophagus with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The image depicts an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus, characterized by intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions and decorative motifs. The craftsmanship displays typical Egyptian artistic style with emphasis on religious symbols, including an 'Eye of Horus'. The sarcophagus features geometric patterns and mythical iconography, indicative of funerary practices.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
woodpaint
Signs
Eye of Horus
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247931 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 32.3.430a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544365 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.