Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Hes Vase
Description
Faience
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 blue faience vessel with decorative patterns and inscriptions.
The artifact is a tall, slender, blue faience vessel with a lid, showcasing intricate decorative patterns and hieroglyphs. The patterns consist of repeated motifs, possibly symbolic in nature, and the hieroglyphs are prominently displayed on the vessel's body, although not entirely readable. The piece reflects the artistic and religious motifs typical of faience objects.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235394 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.37a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544833 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.