Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) · other

Ptah-Sokar-Osiris box

Source of record: Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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 bird-shaped artifact often associated with ancient Egyptian religious or funerary practices.

This artifact depicts a bird with a sun disk on its head, commonly symbolic of the deity Ra or Horus in ancient Egypt. The style is naturalistic with detailed carving to highlight the wings and body posture, and it rests on a rectangular base. The presence of the sun disk suggests its religious significance. The object appears to be carved from stone and painted, although much of the paint has faded.

religious unknown good
Deities RaHorus
Materials limestone

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Materials LimestoneWood
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  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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