Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Red polished ware jar
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 large red pottery jar from ancient Egypt.
The artifact is a red pottery jar with a bulbous body and a small rounded rim. The surface appears smooth with some natural imperfections. The item's symmetrical shape and simplicity suggest it may have been used for storage purposes. The jar lacks visible decoration or inscriptions, indicating its utilitarian function.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116279807 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 36.1.16 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547293 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.
- 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.