Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · vessel
Large Jar
Description
Caption: Large Jar, 664–30 B.C.E.. Clay. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1605E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A large, ancient Egyptian storage vessel, likely used for holding liquids or grains.
The image depicts a sizable clay storage jar with a rounded body and a narrow neck. The surface appears weathered and covered with deposits, suggesting age and use. Its utilitarian shape and construction are typical of vessels found in archaeological contexts related to daily or economic activities in ancient Egypt.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
clay
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1605E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118130 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- 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.
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