Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Lamp
Description
Coarse red pottery with hematite wash
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 simple, round bowl with a dark rim, likely used in daily life.
This artifact is a small, round ceramic bowl with a smooth, reddish exterior and a dark, possibly burned rim. The construction suggests hand-making techniques typical of utilitarian pottery. Its simplistic design and lack of decoration indicate its use in everyday activities rather than ceremonial or decorative purposes.
daily life
unknown
good
Materials
ceramic
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280905 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.1269 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546706 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.