Cylindrical box
Description
Box, cylindrical. Roman Period, 2nd century B.C.–A.D. 4th century. Wood, red pigment. H. 14.5 × Diam. 5.3 cm (5 11/16 × 2 1/16 in.). From: Dra Abu el-Naga, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: Carnarvon/Carter excavations. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1912.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
The image shows a small cylindrical wooden container and a matching domed wooden lid/cap, both with darkened bands and faint reddish staining or pigment traces.
A cylindrical, basket-like/turned-wood container stands upright in the right half of the image, with multiple horizontal dark bands around its body and a recessed interior at the top. In the left half, a separate, shorter domed/rounded lid or base cap is shown, also with dark banding and a central circular depression on top. The surface appears light brown with areas of darker staining; faint red pigment staining is not clearly legible but the overall tone suggests the possibility of pigment. No clearly readable hieroglyphs, cartouches, deity figures, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are visible on the photographed surfaces.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116418931 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 12.181.259a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 551145 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.