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

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Description

Leaded bronze

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.

Ancient Egyptian bronze pipe with a small human figure seated on it.

The artifact is a bronze pipe featuring a small human figure seated near its center. The pipe is elongated, with decorative elements at both ends. The style suggests intricate metalwork, possibly used in ceremonial contexts. It reflects ancient Egyptian craftsmanship in bronze.

decorative unknown good
Materials bronze

Connections

Materials Bronze

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116389451 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 41.2.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546100 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.