Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel

Black-topped red ware jar with a climbing animal

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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.

A small, polished ceramic vessel with a reddish-brown body and black rim.

The artifact is a ceramic vessel, featuring a polished surface with a distinctive reddish-brown body that transitions to a black rim. The vessel exhibits a simple, utilitarian shape and lacks ornate decorations or inscriptions. Its style is typical of utilitarian pottery from ancient Egyptian periods.

daily life unknown excellent
Materials ceramic

Connections

Materials Ceramic

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116276984 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 07.228.108 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 547246 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.