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Kohl Jar

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Description

Kohl jar, Thutmose III. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1425 B.C. Diorite, gold leaf. H. 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.); diam. 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); lid: diam. 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.); th. 0.7 cm (1/4 in.). From: Tomb of the Three Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1921.

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 small stone jar with a flat circular lid and a mottled black-and-white surface, with gold-colored rims around the lid and base.

Two views of the same object are shown: a top view of the circular lid and a front/side view of the jar. The jar has a broad, flat opening covered by a separate disk-like lid. The lid and the base/edge are bordered with a thin gold-colored band. The body appears to be a dark, speckled stone (black with white and gray veining), consistent with a carved or polished hard-stone vessel. Faint colored markings resembling small red/ochre paint or pigment traces are visible on the jar’s body near the bottom edge and on the lid in the top view. No clearly legible hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is discernible in the provided image. No human figures, deities, or cartouches are visible.

decorative New Kingdom (catalogue ground truth; not independently verifiable from the image) good
Materials stone (black-and-white mottled, likely diorite as catalogued)gold-colored metal (likely gold leaf/band as catalogued)residual pigment (reddish/orange spots, unclear composition)

Connections

Found at Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D
Royals Thutmose III

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116276539 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.8.38a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 547634 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.