Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · funerary_equipment
Ibis on a shrine shaped box, probably for an animal mummy Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
Description
Coffin box, Ibis. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 664–30 B.C. Cupreous metal. H. 8 cm (3 1/8 in.); W. 2.2 cm (7/8 in.); L. 7.4 cm (2 15/16 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Birds, Coffins. Credit: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904.
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.
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Materials
Cupreous Metal
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