Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti on coffin form
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 resembling a small chest or box.
The object appears to be made from several wooden planks, assembled to form what might be a small container or box. The wood is aged and weathered, showing the grain and texture prominently. There are no visible decorations, carvings, or inscriptions on its surface, suggesting a utilitarian purpose rather than a decorative one.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280244 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.279 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546922 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.