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Lamp

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Copper Alloy

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 bronze lamp featuring animal figures.

This artifact is a bronze lamp characterized by its ornate animal figures decorating the nozzle and handle. The craftsmanship suggests detailed attention to form and function, indicative of a decorative purpose. Notable features include the sculpted animals which may serve both an aesthetic and symbolic function.

decorative Roman good
Materials bronze

Connections

Materials Bronze
About this record's data
  • 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.