Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture

Fragment of a Canopic Chest of Queen Tiya

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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 broken stone fragment showing weathered carved markings on a light gray/white surface.

The image shows a single, roughly triangular/irregular fragment of pale stone (likely carved) photographed against a light background. The surface is heavily worn and scuffed, with several small dark marks and possible traces of incised details near the center-left; however, the marks are too degraded to confidently identify as hieroglyphs or any specific decorative program. No complete figure, cartouche, or legible text is visible. The overall form and material appearance are consistent with a small architectural/inscribed component fragment, but the photograph provides insufficient detail to confirm it as part of a canopic chest specifically.

unclear New Kingdom (Ramesside) — consistent with catalogue; exact period cannot be confirmed from this image alone fragmentary
Materials light gray/white stonepossibly travertine/alabaster-like material (uncertain from photo)

Connections

Royals Thutmose IV

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116234980 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 14.6.373i tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 577029 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • 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.