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

Large clothes basket D

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Description

Palm leaf

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 circular woven basket with a flat lid.

This artifact is a finely woven circular basket with a slightly domed lid, displaying a simple yet elegant design. The weaving style is tight and consistent, indicating skilled craftsmanship. The basket is presented in excellent condition, showing no significant signs of wear or damage.

daily life unknown excellent
Materials reedfiber

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials FiberReed

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116243482 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.3.18a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545719 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.