Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Two-handled Jar
Description
Pottery (marle clay)
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 ancient Egyptian pottery vessel with geometric patterns.
The artifact is a pottery vessel characterized by a wide, round body and a narrow neck with a flared rim. It features two handles on opposite sides. The surface is decorated with geometric painted patterns in black and red hues. The overall style suggests utilitarian function with decorative elements.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
pottery
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280144 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.427 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547033 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.