Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Feeding Cup
Description
Blue faience, paint
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A blue faience cup with painted animal motifs and hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a beautifully crafted blue faience cup, featuring black-painted motifs that include depictions of animals such as giraffes. The designs are accompanied by hieroglyphic inscriptions encircling the vessel, showcasing skilled artistry characteristic of faience work. The style and iconography suggest an object of decorative or ceremonial use.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
giraffe
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116726742 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545936 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.