Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Small High-shouldered Jar with Lugs
Description
Diorite
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 small, ancient Egyptian stone jar with two small handles.
The artifact is a small stone jar with a rounded body and a flat base. It features two small, rounded handles placed symmetrically on either side. The surface is polished, indicating skilled craftsmanship, and the coloration is a mottled mix of darker and lighter stone hues. There are no visible inscriptions or decorative features on the jar.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
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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.