Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Ointment Jar
Description
Serpentinite (green)
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 stone vessel in the form of a smooth, flared cup.
The artifact is a flared cup made from a speckled stone with a smooth, polished surface. The form is simple with a wide rim tapering slightly to a narrower base. The stone's natural pattern of darker speckles against a lighter background adds to its aesthetic appeal. This style of vessel is often associated with utilitarian or ceremonial uses in ancient Egypt.
daily life
Old Kingdom
excellent
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280146 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.422 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547030 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.