Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Toilet vase
Description
Egyptian Blue (?)
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 blue faience fragment of an ancient Egyptian vessel with a flared rim.
The artifact is a broken piece of blue faience, likely part of a vessel or a vase, with a distinct flared rim. The surface shows signs of weathering and corrosion, typical of faience material over time. The fragment suggests it was once part of a larger ceremonial or decorative object.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280696 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.112 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546811 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.