Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Bottle Roman PeriodMaghagha
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
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Red-painted inscription/marks on the lower body; characters not clearly legible from the image resolution.
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.