Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Ointment Jar
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), ointment
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 vertical inscriptions.
This artifact is a tall, alabaster vessel featuring vertical inscriptions. The vessel is elegantly shaped, with a wider base and a slightly flaring top. The inscriptions are carefully carved in a vertical column, indicating its importance as a ceremonial or offering object in ancient Egypt.
funerary
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
alabaster
Signs
ankh ×2
dj
Visible text
"Unknown"
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.