Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Kohl Jar (with Stick 16.10.361c)
Description
Wood, green eye paint
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 wooden container with a lid and a stick, likely serving as a cosmetic jar or similar item.
The artifact consists of a wooden vessel with a separate lid alongside a slender stick, possibly intended for mixing or application. The wood is darkened and aged, with visible cracking likely due to its antiquity. The overall composition suggests a utilitarian purpose, possibly related to personal grooming or ritual practices, typical in ancient Egyptian daily life objects.
daily life
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280645 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.361a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546885 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.