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.
Photograph of a worn stone fragment, likely from an Egyptian carved object, showing a light-colored surface with faint incised lines.
The image shows a single, irregularly shaped fragment of pale stone with a rough, weathered exterior. The left side appears darker and more damaged, while the right face is lighter and smoother, suggesting a break from a larger object. Faint, vertical and shallow incised/engraved lines are visible on the right face, but no clearly readable hieroglyphs, cartouches, or figure details can be distinguished at this resolution. No separate decorative bands, relief sculpture, or inscriptions in Greek/Coptic/Arabic are visible.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116234985 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 14.6.373e tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 577025 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.