Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel

Jar

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Description

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 alabaster jar with a rounded body and narrow neck.

The artifact is a small alabaster jar featuring a rounded body, narrow neck, and slightly flared rim. The material has a smooth finish, with natural banding visible within the stone. No inscriptions or decorative motifs are present on the surface of the jar.

decorative unknown excellent
Materials alabaster

Connections

Found at Asasif
Materials Alabaster

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116280460 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 16.10.392 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546988 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.