Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Bowl in the form of a turtle
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 pottery vessel with a footed design, resembling a duck or bird.
This artifact is a red pottery vessel with a distinct shape resembling a bird or duck, having two feet or supports at the base. The vessel has a smooth finish and is relatively well-preserved, showcasing the artistic style of shaping pottery to imitate natural forms, typical in certain periods of Egyptian craft. The color appears uniform with slight variations in hue.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
pottery
Connections
Materials
Pottery
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116279927 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.176.114 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547213 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.