Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Vessel
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.
Ancient Egyptian pottery vessel with geometric patterns.
The artifact is a pottery vessel featuring a complex geometric design painted on its surface, showing interlocking lines and motifs. The composition is simple yet elegant, and the vessel's shape is slightly asymmetrical, suggesting it may have been shaped by hand. The wear patterns indicate it may have been used in daily activities.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280697 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.1653 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546808 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.