Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti coffin of Wahneferhotep
Description
Wood, paint, gold leaf.
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 painted wooden model of a building, possibly representing a typical domestic or religious structure.
This artifact is a wooden model painted to resemble a building with a flat roof. It features a rectangular structure with vertical pillars and a band of geometric patterns resembling architectural detailing. The paint is predominantly in red, yellow, and black, indicating decorative elements common in models from ancient Egypt. Such models were often placed in tombs to provide the deceased with the objects and environments they would need in the afterlife.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
woodpigment
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247911 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 14.3.69a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544367 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.