Rough ware bowl
Description
Bowl, Rough ware. Predynastic Period, ca. 3850–2960 B.C. Pottery. From: Cemetery B, Tomb B97, Abadiya, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: EEF excavations 1898–99. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899.
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, reddish-brown uninscribed pottery bowl presented in a simple studio photograph.
The image shows a rough, handmade bowl with an outward-sloping rim and a slightly concave interior. The exterior surface is uneven and textured, with small chips and pits consistent with rough ware. No painted decoration, relief, or figured iconography is visible. The bowl rests on a plain light background with lighting emphasizing the rim and the mottled brown-red fabric. No hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible on the object or background. No cartouches or royal names can be identified. No deities are depicted.
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.
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