Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Lid of Coffin
Description
Wood (Abies sp. or Cedrus sp.)
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 anthropoid coffin lid with painted decoration and hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a wooden coffin lid depicting an anthropomorphic figure with crossed arms. It features painted details, including a striped headdress and intricate patterns representing the wings of the goddess Nut. Hieroglyphic inscriptions run vertically along the center. The craftsmanship and style suggest a detailed and traditional composition typical of funerary art.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Nut
Materials
wood
Signs
chisel ×2
reed pen
owl
water
vulture
Visible text
"𓇳𓏠𓈗𓅓𓏏𓏏"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246260 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 23.3.461 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544872 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.