Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Jar, flaring
Description
Pottery (black polished)
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 black, bell-shaped ceramic vessel with a flared rim.
The artifact is a ceramic vessel with a dark, almost black surface. It has a bell-shaped body with a wide, flared rim, and a slightly narrower base. The surface shows signs of wear and small scratches, typical of utilitarian items. Its shape suggests use in pouring or holding liquids.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
ceramic
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280451 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.371 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546995 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.