Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Cosmetic spoon with duck-head handle
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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.
An alabaster offering dish or small bowl with a leaf-like handle.
The object is a small dish or bowl carved from alabaster, likely used for holding offerings. The bowl features a textured handle resembling a leaf, indicating an aesthetic design. Such artifacts are often associated with religious or funerary contexts, commonly found in tombs or temples as part of offering practices. The craftsmanship suggests careful attention to detail, typical of Egyptian artisanship.
funerary
unknown
good
Materials
alabaster
Connections
Materials
Alabaster
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251941 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.1283 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544050 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.