Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Jug with rope pattern
Description
Crystalline and banded travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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 vessel made of a stone material.
This is a globular alabaster vessel with a broad base, a narrow neck, and a single handle. The surface is smooth with a rope-like design near the neck. It reflects typical craftsmanship seen in vessels used during various periods of Egyptian history.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
alabaster
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276542 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.8.18 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547631 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.