Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Kohl Tube and Stick
Description
Wood
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 wooden artifact resembling a cylindrical container with a lid.
This artifact is a small, cylindrical wooden object with visible weathering and age-related cracking. The object appears to be a container with a round lid on top, suggesting it could have been used to hold small items. The surface is dark and worn, indicative of significant age, and features some red markings that may have been applied later.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280355 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.255a–c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546904 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.