Shallow bowl
Description
Early Dynastic Period, Dynasty 1–2, ca. 3100–2649 B.C. Basalt. From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of James Douglas, 1890.
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 shallow, dark stone bowl with a rounded rim and slightly slanted sides, photographed from the front.
The image shows a single Egyptian stone vessel: a shallow bowl with a thick, rounded rim and a shallow, conical/elliptical profile. The exterior and interior surfaces appear uniformly dark with lighter speckling/pitting consistent with natural stone texture. No decorative relief, painted design, or carved inscriptions are clearly visible on the bowl itself. A museum inventory number appears printed on the photograph near the center of the image (“90.6.291”), not as an inscription on the artifact.
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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.