Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Fragment of a decorated New Year's flask unusually intended for ointment
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 faience fragment with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a turquoise blue faience piece likely from a larger object, displaying detailed hieroglyphs. The surface is decorated with vertical columns of hieroglyphic text, and the workmanship suggests skilled craftsmanship. The depiction appears to be organized and carefully incised, indicating its possible use in an official or ceremonial context.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh
Djed
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413722 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1987.104 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544899 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.