Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Large clothes basket and lid G
Description
Palm leaf
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 woven basket with a rounded bottom and slightly narrowed top.
The artifact is a large, finely woven basket, displaying a conical shape with a rounded base. The weaving technique is tight and uniform, suggesting skilled craftsmanship. The basket's texture and color indicate it may have been used for storage purposes.
daily life
unknown
excellent
Materials
natural fibers
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246327 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.3.19a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544844 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.