Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Meskhetyu Instrument From Foundation Deposit C, Hatshepsut's Temple
Description
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 artifact shaped like an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph.
The image shows a wooden object carved in the shape of the ancient Egyptian 'ankh' symbol, which represented life. The wood exhibits signs of age, with a smooth surface and a natural wood tone. The shape is simple and lacks adornment, consistent with an item intended as a symbolic or practical tool.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Signs
ankh
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247830 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 25.3.40 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544458 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.