Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Late ware jar with wavy painted decoration
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 spherical clay pot with a simple decorative pattern.
The artifact is a spherical clay pot featuring a flared rim and an undecorated body, save for a series of vertical wavy lines painted along one side. The surface is smooth with a light brown color, and the lines suggest a simplistic decorative style often seen in utilitarian pottery.
decorative
Predynastic
good
Materials
clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116279860 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 36.1.144 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547145 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.