Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Kohl pot
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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 a wide rim and narrow neck.
The image depicts a small stone jar from ancient Egypt, characterized by a wide rim and a narrow neck that extends into a bulbous body. The surface appears worn, suggesting age, and may exhibit traces of original use or manufacture techniques. Its form and material hint at utilitarian purposes, possibly related to daily life or rituals.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245632 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.246 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545069 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.