Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Container in the Shape of a Duck
Description
Wood (Sycomore?), stucco, pitch
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 carved limestone container resembling a shell.
The artifact is a carved limestone container, designed to look like a bivalve shell with a lid. The exterior surface is weathered, showing the natural texture of stone. The interior is darkened, possibly from use or exposure over time. There are no evident inscriptions or decorative elements visible.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413700 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.3.21a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544846 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.