Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Food Case Probably Containing a Preserved Duck
Description
Wood, plaster, animal remains, bitumen, linen
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.
The image depicts an object wrapped in linen, possibly a mummy or artifact.
The item consists of a form wrapped in linen, suggesting a possible funerary purpose or the preservation of an artifact. The style is indicative of ancient Egyptian mummification or artifact wrapping techniques. There is some visible deterioration, with parts of the underlying structure exposed, revealing a hard surface that might be plaster or wood.
funerary
unclear
fragmentary
Materials
linenplaster
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243636 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 19.3.275 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545673 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.