Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Neck from a vessel depicting the goddess Hathor flanked by felines
Description
Silver, gold
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 cylindrical glass vessel with a decorative gold band featuring ancient Egyptian motifs.
The artifact is a clear glass vessel with a decorative gold band around its upper section. The gold band features relief depictions of ancient Egyptian deities or motifs, including a central face flanked by animal representations. The craftsmanship suggests intricate metalworking, likely indicating a ritualistic or ceremonial object. The piece shows a combination of delicate glasswork and detailed goldsmithing.
decorative
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
glassgold
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413649 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.370 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544751 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.