Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel

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Description

Faience

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.

Green-blue faience vessel with a flared rim, displaying aged surface.

The artifact is a fragmented faience vessel, likely a part of a larger piece, with a distinct green-blue patina indicative of age. The surface exhibits ribbed patterns suggesting its decorative function. The piece is mounted on modern supports for display, and the visible texture denotes erosion and color changes over time.

decorative Late Period fragmentary
Materials faience

Connections

Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116414022 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 17.194.2249 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545570 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.