Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Decorated Ware Jar Depicting Ungulates and Boats with Human Figures
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 pottery vessel with painted depictions of boats and symbolic motifs.
The artifact is a clay pot adorned with intricate, painted imagery. It showcases boats with high prows and sterns, filled with people and possibly deities. There are geometric patterns, including chevrons and wave patterns, around the upper periphery. The artwork reflects early symbolic representation with significant cultural meaning, possibly connected to funerary or ritualistic functions.
funerary
Predynastic
good
Materials
clay
Signs
boat motif ×2
wave pattern
chevron pattern
Connections
Materials
Clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243380 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.2.10 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545755 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.