Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Kamares jar
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.
An ancient Egyptian ceramic vessel with painted geometric designs.
The artifact is a ceramic vessel featuring a bulbous base with geometric and stylized leaf motifs painted in earth tones. The paint is largely worn, but the designs are still discernible. The vessel appears to have been reconstructed, with visible repairs and missing pieces, notably at the rim.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
ceramic
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116242807 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.1406 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545718 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.