Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Half of a Food Case Containing a Preserved Goose

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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

Connections

Materials PlasterLinen

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.
  • 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.