Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Dish
Description
Pottery
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 bowl containing dried dates.
The image shows a simple ceramic bowl filled with numerous dried dates. The bowl has a glazed appearance, suggesting it might be of historical value. The dates are dark in color and appear shriveled, suggesting they are either very old or unused. This composition suggests the depiction of food items, possibly for daily use or offerings.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
ceramicdried fruit
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245289 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 36.3.64 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545132 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.