Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel

Feeding cup for infant

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Description

Pottery

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, undecorated pottery bowl.

The artifact is a small, red clay pottery bowl with a rough, undecorated surface. It features an uneven rim with visible wear and chipping, indicating significant age or usage. The form is basic with slight asymmetry, typical of utilitarian objects from ancient periods.

unclear unknown fragmentary
Materials red clay

Connections

Materials Red Clay

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116726735 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.180.768c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546752 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.