Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Ointment jar inscribed with the name of Pepi I Old Kingdom
Description
Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, reign of Pepi I, ca. 2289–2255 B.C. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster). H. 15 cm (5 7/8 in.); Greatest Diam. 13 cm (5 1/8 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1927.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Hieroglyphic inscription in a band around the lower body; exact reading of Pepi I not confidently recoverable from the provided image.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116252241 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 27.2.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 543933 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.