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

Piriform 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 stone vessel with hieroglyphic inscriptions and cartouches.

The artifact is a black stone vessel with a speckled appearance. It features two cartouches and hieroglyphic inscriptions near the center. The style of the vessel and inscriptions suggest it may be used for ritual or ceremonial purposes, possibly related to a royal individual. The craftsmanship appears precise, indicative of skilled artisanship.

royal New Kingdom good
Royals Cartouche text
Materials stone
Signs ankh dj
Visible text "Transcription of visible hieroglyphs"

Connections

Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116274798 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.8.13 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548650 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.