Vessel
Description
Meroitic Period, 270 B.C.–A.D. 320. Glass. From: Cemetery 1, Grave 1134, Faras, Lower Nubia, Nubia (Sudan). Excavation: University of Oxford Excavations in Nubia 1910–1912. Credit: Gift of Oxford University Expedition to Nubia, 1926.
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.
A small, greenish glass vessel with an elongated, club-shaped body and a narrow neck, shown photographed against a plain background.
The image depicts a single vessel centered in frame. The vessel has a rounded, bulbous base, rising into a short, narrow neck and then flaring slightly at the rim. The surface appears dark green to green-gray with visible speckling/patchiness consistent with aged or weathered glass, including possible bubbles or inclusions. No painted decoration, relief, or legible inscriptions are visible on the body or neck at this resolution. The object is shown upright with even lighting and no associated objects. No hieroglyphs, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text can be clearly read.
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.