Bottle
Description
Roman Period, 30 B.C.–A.D. 364. Pottery. Height: 19.6 x Diam: 3.7 cm (7 11/16 x 1 7/16 in.). From: Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: EEF excavations 1904–05. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1905.
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.
A small orange-brown pottery bottle with a short neck and rounded shoulder; the surface shows age-related wear and patches of residue or pigment.
The image shows a photographed ceramic vessel described as a bottle. It has a short cylindrical neck with a plain rim, a rounded globular body with a broad shoulder transition, and a slightly splayed base (the base is partly obscured by a modern mount/stand). The clay surface is orange to reddish-brown with heavy abrasion and flaking; lighter areas suggest peeling of a surviving coating or plaster/residue. No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic inscriptions are visible on the vessel body or neck. No iconography or deity attributes are identifiable from the visible decoration (none is clearly preserved).
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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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