Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Canopic Chest of Senbi
Description
Wood (ziziphus sp.), paint, string
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 artifact with painted hieroglyphs, used in an ancient Egyptian burial context.
The artifact is a wooden funerary box featuring painted hieroglyphs along its sides and top. It is constructed with vertical and horizontal wooden panels held together by brass corner fittings. The hieroglyphic inscriptions are clear and contain traditional Egyptian iconography. The color scheme includes blue and black against the natural wood grain, and the box appears to have been used to house ushabti or similar burial items, visible inside.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
woodpaintbrass
Signs
Ankh
Djed Pillar
Visible text
"Ankh Djed"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281669 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 11.150.17a1–3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546275 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.