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

Falcon Box with Wrapped Contents Late Period–Ptolemaic PeriodAsyut (Lykopolis)

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Description

Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, late Dynasty 26 or later, 600–30 BCE. Painted and gilded wood, linen, resin, feathers. H. 58.5 × W. 24.9 × D. 33.3 cm (23 1/16 × 9 13/16 × 13 1/8 in.). Said to be from: Asyut (Lykopolis), Middle Egypt. Subject: Falcons. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1912.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

Connections

Materials Painted Wood

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116252772 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 12.182.5a–c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 551150 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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