Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
White cross-lined ware beaker with hippos
Description
Pottery, paint
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 painted terracotta vessel with animal-shaped handles.
The artifact is a terracotta vessel featuring two handle-like protuberances shaped like stylized animals. The surface of the vessel is decorated with geometric and abstract painted designs, possibly symbolic or decorative. The composition is simple, with a focus on the unique handle shapes and painted motifs.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
terracotta
Connections
Materials
Terracotta
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280767 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.203 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546758 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.