Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Circular Basket with Lid
Description
Grass, 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 woven basket with a domed shape and colorful pattern.
The artifact is a coiled basket featuring a dome-like top. It is crafted with natural fibers and displays a pattern of dots in various colors including gray and red against a yellowish background. The composition suggests a decorative purpose, and the style is consistent with basketry from various historical periods.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
natural fiber
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243450 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.3.15a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545739 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.