Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Wavy-handled jar with cross-hatched design
Description
Pottery, paint
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 tall, cylindrical ceramic vessel with a simple design.
The artifact is a slender and elongated ceramic vessel featuring a minimalistic design. The surface shows a basic linear pattern that appears to be painted. Its form and style suggest utilitarian use, typical of early craftsmanship, with a focus on functionality over ornamentation.
unclear
Predynastic
good
Materials
ceramic
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116279865 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 36.1.100 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547142 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.