Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Ointment Jar from a Foundation Deposit of Hatshepsut
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), 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.
An ancient Egyptian alabaster vessel with inscriptions.
The image depicts a small, finely crafted alabaster vessel with a flat lid. The vessel features a slightly flared rim and showcases inscriptions on its surface. The carvings appear hieroglyphic in nature, indicative of ancient Egyptian artistry. The material's composition displays characteristic translucence and smoothness associated with alabaster.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
alabaster
Signs
wedjat eye
ankh
Visible text
"unknown"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247817 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 25.3.45a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544463 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.
- 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.