Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Ointment jar Middle KingdomAbydos
Description
Middle Kingdom, late Dynasty 12–early 13, ca. 1850–1775 B.C. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster). H. 7 cm (2 3/4 in.). From: Cemetery V, Tomb V21, Abydos, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: Egypt Exploration Fund excavations, 1904. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904.
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.
Connections
Found at
Abydos
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116726725 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 04.18.47a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 543966 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.