Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Fragment from a Mosaic Bowl
Description
Red porphyry
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 glazed tile featuring a geometric pattern of colorful squares.
This artifact is a fragment of a glazed tile, showcasing a geometric design composed of bold, multicolored squares. The colors include blue, yellow, red, and a lighter blue, arranged in a grid pattern. The glaze offers a glossy surface, typical of decorative elements intended to be vibrant and eye-catching. The squared composition suggests it might have been part of a larger decorative motif or wall design.
decorative
unclear
fragmentary
Materials
glaze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116388942 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.1164 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548497 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.