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

"Opening of the Mouth" vessel of Perneb

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Description

Dark stone

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 small, fragmented stone vessel.

The image depicts a small stone vessel with a conical shape and a fractured surface, likely used for practical purposes in daily life. The color is a dark grey, and it appears to be unadorned, suggesting it was used for utilitarian functions rather than decorative or ceremonial.

daily life unknown fragmentary
Materials stone

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116277326 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 14.7.94 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 547094 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.
  • 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.