Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Upper Part of a Jar in the Shape of a Woman’s Head
Description
Pottery, 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 pottery vessel featuring a human head with a serene expression.
The artifact is a ceramic vessel with a head-shaped decoration, likely representing a human. The face is stylized, with simplistic and serene features, and a headdress or wig is depicted. The vessel appears to have been molded with attention to symmetry and simplicity, typical of ancient Egyptian artistry focused on symbolic representation.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
pottery
Connections
Materials
Pottery
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408156 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.17 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329782 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.