Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Upper Part of a Jar in the Shape of a Female Musician
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 fragmentary terracotta sculpture depicting a female figure with a headdress.
The artifact is a terracotta sculpture showing a female figure, possibly a deity, with a distinctive headdress. The figure's body is partially missing, revealing the interior structure of the artifact. The sculpture displays typical stylistic elements associated with Egyptian female representations, with a serene facial expression. Erosion and damage are visible, affecting details of the figure's attire and form.
religious
Ptolemaic
fragmentary
Materials
terracotta
Connections
Materials
Terracotta
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389576 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.134 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329913 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.