Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Two-handed pottery vase of Amenhotep
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 decorated with floral motifs and hieroglyphs.
This is a ceramic vessel featuring a floral decorative band around the neck and base, with hieroglyphic inscriptions encircling the middle section. The vessel's design includes lotus petals, a common motif in Egyptian art, and a series of circular patterns possibly representing flowers. It exhibits traditional Egyptian stylistic elements indicative of the time period.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
ceramic
Signs
nefer
ankh
Visible text
"ankh nefer"
Connections
Materials
Ceramic
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243304 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 60.38 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545791 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.