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 dark ceramic vessel with twin handles and a decorative rim, resting on a golden base.
The artifact is a dark ceramic vessel featuring twin handles and a decorative, corded rim. It rests on a golden base, possibly for display purposes. The overall shape is globular, and the surface appears smooth but slightly worn, indicating age. The vessel's form and surface suggest utilitarian purposes, likely associated with daily life or ritual use.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
ceramicgold
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281734 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.50 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546257 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.