Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Fragments of a Canopic Jar Inscribed for Senimen
Description
Pottery (Marl A4), 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 fragment of an ancient Egyptian pottery piece with visible hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a pottery shard featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions, likely a piece of a larger vessel or object. The inscriptions suggest it might have been used for recording or ceremonial purposes. The surface is relatively smooth with a tan color, and the hieroglyphs appear to be incised rather than painted. The fragment is irregularly shaped, with several edges missing.
hieroglyphic only
unclear
fragmentary
Materials
ceramic
Signs
name of sign ×10
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389393 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 35.3.333c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546761 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.