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Ceremonial Situla of the 'Great Praised' Penmin showing Nut as a tree-goddess, and Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, and Harsiese

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Description

Ptolemaic Period, 332–30 B.C. Bronze. H. 27 cm (10 5/8 in.); H. with handle 39.7 cm (15 5/8 in.); Diam 16.4 cm (6 7/16 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1965.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

The image shows a bronze ceremonial Egyptian situla (bucket-like vessel) with a circular handle and engraved surface decoration.

A bronze vessel with a round body and narrow neck is shown front-on. A U-shaped handle/loop rises from the rim, with two small side attachments. The upper band and much of the body are covered with incised/engraved designs and bands of hieroglyphic-like signs; additional motifs include a tree or plant-like vertical form in the central-right area of the body. Specific deities named in the catalogue are not unambiguously identifiable at this resolution, but the catalogue-described Nut-as-tree motif is broadly consistent with the visible tree/foliate engraving. No clearly legible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No royal cartouche is clearly readable.

religious Ptolemaic Period (matches catalogue; inscription style appears consistent but exact period cannot be confirmed from image alone) good
Deities unknown (tree-like motif potentially consistent with Nut; specific figures of Osiris/Isis/Nephthys/Harsiese not clearly confirmable)
Materials bronze
Signs incised hieroglyphic-like groups (unreadable in detail) ×30

Connections

Deities OsirisIsisNephthysNut
Materials Bronze

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116243242 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 65.116 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545871 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.