Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Mortar
Description
Black granite
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 stone vessel with handles featuring an inscribed hieroglyphic panel.
The vessel is cylindrical with two handles and is made from dark stone, showing an elegantly crafted form typical of Egyptian artistry. The central feature of the artifact is a rectangular panel with hieroglyphic inscriptions, suggesting its use in a ceremonial or religious context.
hieroglyphic only
Old Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
reed
water ripple
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414559 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 41.2.8 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546104 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.