Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Outer coffin of the Child Myt
Description
Wood (ficus sycomorus), 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 large ancient Egyptian stone sarcophagus with hieroglyphic inscriptions on its surface.
The image depicts a rectangular stone sarcophagus with a lid. The sarcophagus features hieroglyphic inscriptions along the top edge and on the side. The design is plain, emphasizing the inscriptions as the primary decorative element. The surface shows some wear and discoloration, suggesting age and use.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
Ankh
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244457 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.3.9a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545320 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.