Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Disc-shaped macehead
Description
Hornblende diorite
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 beautifully crafted Egyptian bowl made of stone.
The artifact is a conical-shaped bowl made from stone, exhibiting a smooth surface with a striking black and white marbled pattern. The crafting suggests skilled workmanship, possibly indicating a decorative or ceremonial purpose. The simplistic yet elegant design emphasizes the natural beauty of the stone.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415008 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 09.182.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547108 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.