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 vessel with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a slender, cylindrical vessel made of a creamy alabaster or similar stone. It features vertical hieroglyphic inscriptions enclosed within a cartouche on its surface. The overall condition appears well-preserved, with legible inscriptions and minimal surface wear.
royal
New Kingdom
good
Royals
unknown
Materials
alabaster
Signs
reed leaf
owl
bread loaf
Visible text
"unknown"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247787 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 25.3.48a tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544466 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.