Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Food Case Probably Containing a Preserved Pigeon
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 ancient Egyptian mummified head wrapped in linen.
The artifact appears to be a mummified head, likely from an ancient Egyptian context, wrapped in linen bandages. The composition shows darkened areas around the head, indicating possible exposure to resins or preservation materials. The wrapping style is typical of mummification practices.
funerary
unknown
poor
Materials
linen
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243631 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 19.3.276 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545674 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.