Blue-Painted Jar from Malqata
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Pottery, slip, paint. H. 40 × Dia. 10.4 cm (15 3/4 × 4 1/8 in.); Largest Dia. 17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.). From: Palace of Amenhotep III, Malqata, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1911–12. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1912.
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 Egyptian pottery jar with a pale slip surface and remnants of painted bands and register-like decoration.
The object is a globular-to-shouldered jar with a narrow neck and everted rim. Its surface is coated with a light slip and decorated with reddish-brown and blue/green-toned painted lines forming horizontal registers and broad band motifs. Several lines appear to be organized in parallel rows across the body and around the neck, with some areas abraded or faded. No legible hieroglyphs or cartouches are clearly visible, and there is no depiction of deities. The breakage/abrasion is visible near the lower body and around the painted areas, but the overall vessel shape is intact enough to identify it as a jar. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116252725 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 12.180.256 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 551211 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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