Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Cosmetic Box in the Form of a Cartouche
Description
Wood
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 wooden model of a headrest with a rounded top and flat base.
This artifact is a wooden headrest model from ancient Egypt, characterized by its smoothly carved shape with a rounded top that would provide comfort to the head. The base is flat to ensure stability. There are signs of wear and chiseling marks, indicating its use or method of production.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Connections
Materials
Wood
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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.