Lid of basket
Description
Basket, 3 bottles found inside. Roman Period, A.D. 2nd–3rd century. Basketry. H. 21 x W. 30 x D. 11.5 cm (8 1/4 x 11 13/16 x 4 1/2 in.). Said to be from: Maghagha, Middle Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1912.
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 tan woven basketry object shaped like a shallow lid with an open, interlaced weave and a slightly upturned rim.
The image shows a rectangular, lid-like piece made of tightly woven basketry. The weave forms a lattice pattern with several strands visible on the top surface and along the edges. One side shows an overhanging fringe of flattened ends, suggesting a cut or layered basket weave. No painted decoration, relief, or applied ornamentation is visible. The background is a neutral studio setting with the object oriented horizontally; there are no visible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or inscriptions. No identifiable deities or royal names can be made out due to the lack of inscriptions and iconography.
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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.