Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Red polished ware 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 red polished ceramic vessel with a wide opening and rounded base.
The artifact is a highly polished red ceramic vessel, likely handmade, with a wide opening and a rounded, bulbous base. The smooth surface and clean lines indicate skilled craftsmanship typical of utilitarian yet aesthetically pleasing pottery. The vessel's simplicity suggests it may have been used for daily purposes or as a storage container.
daily life
Predynastic
excellent
Materials
ceramic
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415098 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 36.1.155 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547182 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.