Jar from Djoser’s Pyramid Complex
Description
Caption: Jar from Djoser’s Pyramid Complex, ca. 2675–2625 B.C.E.. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 23 1/16 x 5 1/16 in. (58.5 x diam. 12.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 34.977.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
Photograph of a tall, narrow Ancient Egyptian jar with a simple rounded body and short neck, photographed in a museum.
The object is shown centered on a display stand against a plain background. It is a unadorned jar with a rounded, tapering body; the top has a short neck and a slightly thickened rim. No painted decoration, carved relief, or readable inscription is visible on the exterior in this image. The surface appears light-colored and stone-like, consistent with the catalogued alabaster material, though exact stone type cannot be confirmed from the photograph alone. No cartouches, royal names, or hieroglyphic signs are identifiable, and no visible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text appears.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.977 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3331 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- 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.