Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Jug in the shape of a woman's head
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-painted pottery vessel shaped in the form of a woman.
The artifact is a pottery vessel featuring a female figure integrated into its design. The body of the vessel forms the shape of the figure, with the head and upper body sculpted with noticeable details such as hair and facial features. The red paint enhances the tactile features of the sculpture, likely intended for decorative or ceremonial use. The overall style is simplistic yet stylized, capturing key human features with minimal detail.
decorative
Ptolemaic
good
Materials
ceramic
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246268 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.2.30 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544869 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.