Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Double jar of white cross-lined ware
Description
Pottery, 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 clay vessel with dual spouts featuring a geometric design.
This artifact is a clay vessel characterized by its dual spouts and decorated with a geometric design resembling arrows or leaves. The brown surface is adorned with patterns in a light pigment, possibly created using a combing technique. The distinctive shape and design suggest it may have been used for ceremonial or practical purposes.
unclear
Predynastic
good
Materials
clay
Connections
Materials
Clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116277941 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 07.228.147 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547259 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.