Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Jar Decorated with a Baby Monkey
Description
Pottery (Black-topped Red Ware)
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 with a black-topped red ware design.
This artifact is a simple, yet elegant ceramic vessel, featuring a distinctive black-topped red ware style indicative of fine pottery craftsmanship. The vessel's smooth, polished texture and bulbous bottom tapering towards a slightly flared rim are notable. It represents the utilitarian yet aesthetic function of ancient pottery.
decorative
Predynastic
excellent
Materials
clay
Connections
Materials
Clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276983 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 07.228.107 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547245 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.