Bottle
Description
Roman Period, A.D. 2nd–3rd century. Glass. H. 9.3 cm x Diam. (of mouth) 3 cm (3 11/16 in. x 1 3/16 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 small greenish glass bottle with a narrow neck and flared rim, shown against a plain background. A short red-painted inscription appears on the body near the lower portion.
The object is a vessel of blown or cast glass with an ovoid body that tapers into a short, narrow neck ending in a flared mouth/rim. The glass is translucent and tinted light green, with a slightly uneven surface and visible bubbles/impurities typical of ancient glass. Along the lower half of the body there is a small patch of red-painted writing or marks, consisting of a few characters that are too unclear to confidently transcribe as specific hieroglyphs. No sculpted figures, cartouches, or divine iconography are visible. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is clearly legible in the image.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
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.