Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Small Ointment Vase (model?)
Description
White speckled black stone
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 ancient Egyptian stone vessel, possibly used for holding liquids or ointments.
The artifact is a small, dark stone vessel with a flared rim and visible wear, suggesting it was used frequently. The material appears to be a type of dark stone with lighter inclusions, possibly diorite or granite. Its form is simple yet functional, typical of utilitarian objects found in many tombs and archaeological sites.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280703 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 11.151.755 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546799 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.