Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Vessel stand naming the scribe Iui
Description
Faience
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 faience vase decorated with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a small, blue faience vase featuring a wide base and narrow top, adorned with a band of hieroglyphics near the upper section. The style is typical of New Kingdom Egyptian pottery, with a polished surface that reflects artisanship in faience work, a technique involving sintering ground quartz to create a glazed finish. The inscriptions are well-preserved, suggesting either a ceremonial purpose or a carefully stored item.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
reed
owl
hand
Visible text
"ḥḳ3 nb( -v)"
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116275326 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1971.272.12 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548418 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.
- 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.