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.
Alabaster jar with a narrow base and wide rim.
The artifact is a small alabaster jar, featuring a simple yet elegant design with a narrow base expanding into a wider rim. The craftsmanship suggests careful shaping of the stone, typical of containers used in ancient Egyptian daily life. Its smooth texture and slight translucence are characteristic of alabaster, often used for holding perfumes or oils.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
alabaster
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281247 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 34.1.165 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546460 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.