Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Ointment jar and lid naming Thutmose III
Description
Serpentinite, gold leaf
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 conical vessel with a separate flat lid, both featuring a gold rim.
The artifact consists of a conical stone vessel and a flat lid, each bordered with gold rims. The surface of the vessel appears weathered, indicating age and possible use. The simplistic style suggests functionality, while the gold edging indicates value or significance.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
stonegold
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276540 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.8.36a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547633 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.