Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel

Glass Vessel Fragment

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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 small, colorful fragment of an artifact with vivid colors.

The artifact fragment shows a triangular piece with bright hues of red, blue, yellow, black, and white. The composition suggests it could be part of a larger, decorative object, possibly made from faience or painted surface. The fragment's worn edges indicate it's a small part of a more extensive work.

decorative unknown fragmentary
Materials faience

Connections

Found at Malqata
Materials Faience
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.