Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel

Jar

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Description

Pottery

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 clay jar displayed on a modern stand.

The image shows a large, oval-shaped clay jar with a narrow neck and lip. The jar is unadorned and lacks inscriptions or decorations, placed on a contemporary metal stand for display. The surface is smooth and shows signs of age, indicative of its historical origin.

unclear unknown good
Materials clay

Connections

Found at Asasif
Materials Clay

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116280622 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 32.3.213 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546873 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.