Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Coffin of Wah
Description
Coniferous wood (spruce or cedar), paint
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 surface with hieroglyphic inscriptions and a depiction of the Eye of Horus.
The artifact features a section of hieroglyphs above a representation of the Eye of Horus, also known as the 'wedjat eye.' The artwork is rendered on a wooden surface with clear brush strokes, indicating a careful and deliberate craftsmanship typical of the ancient Egyptian artistic style. The condition is good, with visible signs of aging on the wood but the symbols are still well-preserved.
decorative
unknown
good
Deities
Horus
Materials
wood
Signs
reed leaf
quail chick
water jar
half loaf
Eye of Horus
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245332 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.3.202a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545123 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.