Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Deep bowl depicting people, animals, and plants
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 ceramic vessel featuring painted images of running animals.
The artifact is a ceramic vessel decorated with a repeating pattern of antelope-like animals in a dynamic running pose. The animals are interspersed with geometric patterns, such as zigzags and grids, that are typical of decorative art in ancient Egypt. The painting style is stylized, with an emphasis on the elongated limbs of the animals.
decorative
Predynastic
good
Materials
ceramic
Connections
Materials
Ceramic
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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.