Fragment of a Canopic Chest of Queen Tiya
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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.
A small, broken fragment of carved stone with incised/raised linear decoration and faint surface relief, photographed against a plain background.
The image shows a compact stone fragment with jagged breaks on multiple edges. The visible face has shallow relief and narrow, vertical linear bands resembling incised grooves or molded panel work. One area contains a darker, irregular break-through. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or deity iconography are distinguishable at this resolution. The surface appears smooth and worn, consistent with a heavily weathered sculptural or architectural element from a larger object. No modern labels or non-Egyptian scripts are visible.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116234987 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 14.6.373c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 577023 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.