Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Vase
Description
Glass
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 small, ancient Egyptian glass vessel with decorative patterns.
The object is a small, ornate glass vessel with a rounded body, narrow neck, and flared lip. It features intricate, horizontal chevron patterns in shades of blue, white, and yellow, typical of the core-formed glass technique used in ancient Egypt. The vessel's shape and decoration suggest it was used for holding perfumes or precious oils.
decorative
Ptolemaic
excellent
Materials
glass
Connections
Materials
Glass
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281739 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.47 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546254 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.