Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Senwosret (?), Oil jar
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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.
An ancient Egyptian alabaster cup with smooth sides.
The image shows a small conical cup made of alabaster, characterized by its smooth, slightly translucent surface with a rounded rim. The stone exhibits natural veining and coloration, typical of Egyptian alabaster. Such cups were commonly used in both religious and everyday contexts in ancient Egypt.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
alabaster
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281253 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 34.1.162 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546457 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.