Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Storage jar
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.
The image depicts an ancient Egyptian vessel with inscribed cartouches.
The artifact is a rounded black vessel with a narrow neck, featuring two prominent cartouches inscribed in a vertical panel. The cartouches contain hieroglyphs symbolizing royal names and titles. The style suggests a focus on royal iconography, typical of artifacts associated with pharaohs. The vessel's surface shows signs of wear, suggesting its considerable age.
royal
New Kingdom
good
Royals
Thutmose IIIAmenhotep II
Materials
stone
Signs
cartouche ×2
ankh
reed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116274794 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.8.14a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548651 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.