Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Jar With Hieratic Inscription
Description
Pottery (rough red, originally whitewashed), 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 clay pot with inscriptions on its surface.
The image depicts a small, reddish clay pot exhibiting signs of aging, with visible inscriptions likely made with black paint or ink circling its surface. The pot's shoulder has small holes that may have been used for suspension. The style is simple and utilitarian, lacking elaborate decoration, suggesting its everyday use.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
clay
Signs
unknown ×10
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280464 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.501 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546948 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.