Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Bowl
Description
Pottery
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 simple, undecorated pottery bowl from ancient Egypt.
This is a basic, rough pottery bowl characterized by its rounded shape and uneven surface, indicative of early pottery techniques. The artifact has a natural clay coloration with noticeable signs of wear and aging, suggesting it was a utilitarian object. There are no visible inscriptions or decorative elements.
unclear
Predynastic
good
Materials
clay
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415079 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.4.40 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547167 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.