Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Fragment of a Vase Depicting Arsinoe II Ptolemaic PeriodAlexandria
Description
Vase fragment, Arsinoe II's head. Ptolemaic Period, Ptolemaic Dynasty, Reign of Ptolemy II and Arsinoe II, 275–270 B.C.or a bit later. Faience. H. 3.8 × W. 2 × D. 3 cm (1 1/2 × 13/16 × 1 3/16 in.). Probably from: Alexandria. Subject: Heads, Women. Credit: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116252446 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.1017 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 551339 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.