Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Miniature coffin of Saiah
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 inscribed with hieroglyphs.
The image depicts a wooden box featuring a line of hieroglyphs along its side. The craftsmanship indicates skilled woodwork with legs elevating the piece, and the hieroglyphs are painted in a faded blue-green pigment. The box appears to be of significant age, and the style suggests a practical yet ceremonial purpose.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
wood
Signs
Ankh ×3
Djed ×2
Visible text
"unk wn rpw (partial transcript)"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244501 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.3.12b, c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545283 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.