Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Neck of a Wide-Mouthed Hathor Jar
Description
pottery, slip, 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 ceramic vessel featuring a painted depiction of a human-like face.
The artifact is a painted ceramic vase from ancient Egypt, featuring a stylized depiction of a human face, possibly a deity or a symbolic representation. The style is characteristic of ancient Egyptian iconography, with prominent eyes and a distinct linear pattern around the neck area. The painting is in earthy colors including reds and browns.
decorative
Predynastic
good
Materials
ceramic
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247695 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 11.215.472 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544508 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.