Jar, fragments
Description
Meroitic Period, 270 B.C.–A.D. 320. Glass. From: Cemetery 1, Grave 1504, 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.
The image shows multiple small, dark-gray/black ceramic or glass fragments with curved edges, displayed against a white background.
Several broken vessel sherds are photographed in a row: two larger curved fragments on the left (one with a mostly vertical rim-like edge and one with a triangular-looking profile), and smaller triangular/straight-edged pieces to the right. Surfaces are dark with lighter speckling and chips from breakage; no painted decoration or clear molding marks are visible at this resolution. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or alphabetic text (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) can be distinguished. The fragments appear to be portions of a jar-like container, consistent with a “Jar, fragments” catalogue description, though the exact material cannot be confirmed visually beyond the catalogue’s attribution to glass.
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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.
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