Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Ointment container
Description
Faience, Blue-green glaze
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 turquoise and white faience jar with a flat lid.
The artifact is a cylindrical faience jar with a flat, closely fitting lid. The surface features a mottled pattern of turquoise and white, characteristic of ancient Egyptian faience. The jar's simple and functional design suggests it may have been used for storing ointments or other small items.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281289 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 34.1.128a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546438 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.