Vessel fragment
Description
Vessel fragment, painted. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1390–1353 B.C. Pottery, paint. H. 2.2 cm (7/8 in.); W. 2.5 cm (1 in.); Th. 0.6 cm (1/4 in.). From: Palace of Amenhotep III, Malqata, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations. Credit: Gift of James H. Schwartz, 2006.
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 small painted pottery vessel fragment with red and blue geometric bands and a brown base band bearing red numerals.
The object is a broken ceramic fragment (only a portion of the original vessel survives). The surface is decorated with painted geometric ornament: vertical red bands separated by lighter/white areas, and a central light blue panel/field. Beneath the main painted area is a brown band containing red-painted numbers that appear to read “2.006.82.5” (exact digits beyond this impression are unclear due to wear and partial loss). No human figures or identifiable iconography are visible. No legible Egyptian hieroglyphs, cartouches, or names are apparent; the visible characters are Arabic-style/Western numerals likely forming an accession or inventory marking rather than hieroglyphic text. The fragment shows areas of flaking pigment and chipped edges, with exposed ceramic fabric around the break.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
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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.