Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Hieratic Jar Label
Description
Pottery
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.
Ancient Egyptian jar with black script inscription.
The artifact is a ceramic jar featuring black ink inscriptions. The jar is notable for its utilitarian shape with a wide base and narrowed neck. The surface displays cracks, typical of ancient pottery, and the black ink inscriptions are visible on the lower portion of the jar.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
ceramic
Signs
unknown script ×10
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247690 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.10.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544510 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.