Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Pot
Description
Pottery (buff), 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.
An ancient Egyptian pottery vessel with a rounded body and decorative bands.
The artifact is a rounded pottery vessel featuring decorative parallel bands circling the body. The overall style and shape suggest its use in everyday life, possibly for storage or serving. The image depicts the vessel in monochrome, indicating possible age or a historic photograph.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
ceramic
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280512 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.299 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546932 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.