Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Jar in the Form of a Woman Playing a Lyre
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 red ceramic vessel in the shape of a woman holding a child.
The artifact is a red ceramic vessel shaped like a seated woman, with distinct facial features and hair, holding a small child in her arms. The vessel has an opening at the top, signifying its use as a container. The craftsmanship suggests a stylized human form, common in ancient Egyptian art focused on daily life or symbolic representation.
daily life
Ptolemaic
good
Materials
ceramic
Connections
Materials
Ceramic
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246269 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 25.7.42 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544867 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.