Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Black-topped red ware jar with a climbing animal
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.