Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Decoratred ware jar depicting rows of flamingos
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.
An ancient Egyptian pottery vessel with painted ostrich motifs.
This is a pottery vessel characterized by its round body and narrow opening. It features a painted decoration of ostriches walking in a procession around the body, which is a common motif in early Egyptian art. The vessel's composition is simple and emphasizes the stylized depiction of animals using earthy tones.
daily life
Predynastic
good
Materials
clay
Connections
Materials
Clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116277938 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.1169 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547263 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.