Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Chair for a Woman
Description
Wood (tamarisk), reed
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 chair with a rectangular back and woven seat, featuring carved legs.
The artifact is a wooden chair with a high rectangular back that likely features paneling. The seat is woven, indicating a practical design for comfort. The legs are carved to resemble animal feet, suggesting a focus on decorative elements. The overall craftsmanship indicates skilled woodworking, typical of furniture found in Egyptian tombs.
daily life
New Kingdom
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116274816 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 12.182.28 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548636 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.