Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Glass krateriskos (unguent jar)
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 vase with colorful, wavy striped patterns.
This artifact is a vase made with a vibrant blue base color, adorned with intricate wavy patterns in white and yellow. The stripes are evenly spaced and create a visually engaging pattern along its curved surface, indicative of skilled craftsmanship. The vase's shape is bulbous with a flared rim, a common style in ancient Egyptian glassworks.
decorative
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
glass
Connections
Materials
Glass
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281738 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.48 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546255 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.
- 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.