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

Storage jar

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Description

Serpentinite

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 black stone vessel with incised hieroglyphs including cartouches.

The image depicts a vessel made of dark stone, possibly basalt, with a smooth, polished surface. The vessel is ovoid with a flat, flaring rim. On its front, there are incised hieroglyphs, including two cartouches containing royal names. The craftsmanship is indicative of careful and skilled carving, characteristic of vessels intended for high-status purposes.

royal New Kingdom good
Royals Thutmose IIIAmenhotep II
Materials basalt
Signs cartouche ×2
Visible text "nsw-bity mn-kpr-ra"

Connections

Materials Basalt

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116274800 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.8.12 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548649 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.