Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Ointment jar
Description
Blue paste
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 ceramic vessel.
The artifact is a blue faience vessel, likely symbolic or utilitarian in nature. Its simple cylindrical shape suggests it might have been used in daily life or as a votive offering. The bright blue color is characteristic of Egyptian faience, which was often used in various types of small objects.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280939 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.119 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546654 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.