Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Jar
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.
A fragmentary ancient Egyptian pottery vessel with visible inscriptions.
The image depicts a pottery vessel with a rounded body that is fragmentary at the top. The vessel is adorned with inscriptions in a horizontal band around its midsection. The style appears utilitarian with simple decorative elements near the rim. The composition focuses on the text, which is a defining feature of the artifact.
funerary
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
pottery
Signs
pot fragment with inscription
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280580 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.502 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546949 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.