Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Situla, red polished ware
Description
Pottery (polished red), 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 tall, cracked ceramic vessel with a reddish surface and visible inscriptions.
The image depicts a tall, broken ceramic vessel with a reddish-brown surface. Its exterior is adorned with vertical stripes and there are cracks suggesting age and previous damage. On the upper part of the vessel, there are visible inscriptions, likely in hieroglyphs, though the details are worn and partly obscured.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
ceramic
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280492 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.503 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546970 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.