Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Coffin of Ahmose
Description
Sycomore wood, stucco, 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 painted sarcophagus depicting figures and hieroglyphs.
The image shows a wooden sarcophagus painted in a traditional Egyptian style. The sarcophagus lid features a depiction of a human face, styled to represent the deceased. The body of the sarcophagus is adorned with colorful scenes, including standing figures and hieroglyphic inscriptions. Notable features include the Eye of Horus, which is prominently displayed, and other symbolically significant Egyptian motifs.
funerary
Late Period
good
Materials
woodpaint
Signs
Eye of Horus
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116252475 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 14.10.2a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 543865 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.