Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Ritual tool for the "Opening of the Mouth" ceremony
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.
An ancient Egyptian wooden artifact shaped like a snake.
The image depicts an ancient Egyptian wooden object carved in the shape of a snake with a distinctive curved form. The surface appears smooth, indicating skillful craftsmanship. The artifact is simplistic in design but notable for its elegant curve, suggesting it may have had symbolic or ritual significance.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247825 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 25.3.42 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544460 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.