Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Kerma ware bowl
Description
Pottery
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 simple ancient Egyptian pottery bowl with a black and red finish.
This image depicts an ancient Egyptian pottery bowl, characterized by a blackened top transitioning into a reddish-brown hue towards the base. The bowl exhibits a rounded form with a smooth surface, typical of utilitarian ceramics. There are no visible decorations or inscriptions present on the surface.
unclear
Predynastic
good
Materials
pottery
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280507 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.227 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546967 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.