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Kohl jar lid

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Description

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12–13, ca. 1981–1640 B.C. Stone. diam. 4 cm (1 9/16 in). From: Cemetery, Lisht North, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920–22. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922.

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.

Round stone lid with a central raised boss and a small cluster of red inventory/marking text on the rim.

The image shows a single, circular object photographed against a plain light background. The surface appears light brown/cream with polishing or wear marks. In the center there is a raised, rounded boss/depression-like motif. Along the upper-right inner rim there is a small amount of red painted marking text/numerals, but the characters are not fully legible at this resolution. No clearly readable Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek, or Coptic/Arabic script are visible. There are no identifiable cartouches, royal names, or deity iconography visible on the object itself; the central motif does not have a clearly attributable figure or emblem.

decorative Middle Kingdom (per catalogue; image does not provide diagnostic iconography) good
Materials stone
Signs red painted inventory/identification mark (illegible)
Visible text "Red painted numerals/marking near upper-right rim; exact characters unclear/illegible."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Red painted numerals/marking near upper-right rim; exact characters unclear/illegible.

Connections

Found at Lisht
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116243183 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 22.1.874 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 556898 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.