Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Dish for holding flax
Description
Limestone
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 bowl with two small loops inside.
The artifact is a simple, round pottery bowl made of reddish-brown clay. It features a rough texture and is undecorated, with two curious small loops protruding from the interior base. The style and craftsmanship suggest it was utilitarian, likely used in daily life for domestic purposes. Its construction suggests it dates from a period where pottery was hand-crafted in a rudimentary manner.
daily life
Predynastic
good
Materials
clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413628 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.743 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544721 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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