Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Ointment Jar New KingdomDeir el-Bahri
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), ointment. H 14.3 × Diam 8.4 cm (5 5/8 × 3 5/16 in.). From: Temple of Hatshepsut, forecourt, Foundation Deposit 3 (C), Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1923–24. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1925.
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)
Hieroglyphic inscription in a front rectangular panel; individual signs are not reliably legible from the image provided.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247816 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 25.3.46a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544464 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.