Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Jar
Description
Blue faience
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, blue-green faience vessel with visible repairs.
The artifact is a small, pear-shaped vessel made from faience, predominantly in a blue-green color. The surface shows signs of aging and repair, with visible cracks and a mottled texture. The style suggests it may have been used for holding precious liquids or as an offering vessel.
decorative
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281243 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 34.1.170 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546463 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.