Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Kohl Jar with a Cloth Stopper
Description
Serpentinite (?), linen stopper wad
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 stone jar with a flat lid and a separate cylindrical object alongside it.
This artifact is a stone jar with a polished, dark surface featuring a plain, flat lid. The jar has a simple, rounded composition with a wide base and narrower neck. Next to the jar is a separate cylindrical object, possibly a tool or part of the jar's original contents. The jar's craftsmanship suggests functional rather than highly decorated purposes.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280288 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.218a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546961 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.