Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Half of a Box for Storing Meat
Description
Wood, stucco, beeswax, pistacia resin
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 wrapped, mummified object resting on a worn board.
The image shows a wrapped mummified object, possibly an animal or part of a human, placed on a wooden board with worn, faded paint. The wrapping is textured and shows signs of deterioration, suggesting significant age. The board's chipped paint indicates handling or exposure to elements over time, which aligns with historical preservation techniques.
funerary
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243629 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 19.3.278 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545675 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.