Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Half of a Food Case Containing a Preserved Goose
Description
Wood, stucco, bitumen
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 mummified figure in a burial casing.
The image depicts a mummified figure encased in a burial shell. The mummy is wrapped in linen and positioned within a moulded cavity. The casing is roughly rectangular with a tapered end and appears to be a fragile and incomplete artifact. The style and composition suggest a concern with preservation and the afterlife.
funerary
Late Period
fragmentary
Materials
linenplaster
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243626 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 19.3.280 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545676 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.