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 carved stone fragment with a recessed rectangular panel and a vertical incised/raised element along its face, suggestive of architectural or container ornamentation.
The image shows a roughly shaped fragment of hard light-colored stone (with darker weathered/soiled areas at the left edge). The principal face is light and includes a bordered rectangular field or panel. Within the panel there is a vertical element (incised/raised line) and adjacent shallow marks consistent with undecipherable carving or surface damage. The reverse/left side is darker, likely due to breakage, abrasion, or differing stone surfaces, but no clearly legible iconography is visible at this resolution. No identifiable cartouche, deity figure, or hierarchical inscription can be confirmed from the photograph.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116234979 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 14.6.373g tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 577027 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.