Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Pharmaceutical jar
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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.
An alabaster jar with hieroglyphic inscriptions on its surface.
This artifact is a beautifully crafted alabaster jar, showcasing a smooth, polished surface with natural banding typical of the material. The jar features a rectangular panel of hieroglyphic inscriptions that likely contains names or titles. The craftsmanship indicates it may have served a significant purpose, possibly as a funerary object or a container for precious substances.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
excellent
Materials
alabaster
Signs
ankh
djed column
Connections
Materials
Alabaster
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281835 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 42.2.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546177 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.