Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Jar with two handles
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.
Ancient Egyptian pottery vessel with spiral decorations.
This is a pottery vessel with a bulbous body and two loop handles. The decoration features swirling spiral patterns painted on the surface, which is typical of early Egyptian ceramic art. The pot is unglazed and appears to be made of clay.
decorative
Predynastic
good
Materials
clay
Connections
Materials
Clay
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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.
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