Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Fragment from Thick Walled Marbled Vessel
Description
Glass
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 fragment of a decorative artifact with colorful bands.
The object appears to be a fragment of Egyptian decorative art, with swirling patterns and bands of color including black, white, blue, and yellow. The composition suggests it could be a part of a larger decorative item, possibly inlays or veneer. Notably, the piece does not show any signs of text or specific imagery related to deities or royal iconography.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389005 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number X.621 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548401 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.