Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel

Jar Fragment

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Description

Jar Fragment, Siptah. New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19, reign of Siptah, ca. 1194–1188 B.C. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster). From: Tomb of Siptah (KV 47), Valley of the Kings, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: Davis excavations, 1912. Credit: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914.

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 fragment of an Egyptian stone jar or alabaster-like vessel with painted or inked markings, including green and black bands and a partial red number or label.

The image shows a roughly triangular/irregular stone fragment with a light, translucent beige to pale yellow surface. Across the face are dark green/black painted bands and strokes forming at least two broad horizontal/diagonal lines, plus a vertical thick black element near the upper portion. On the left edge there is a small red marking resembling a painted number or inventory/production note; the exact characters are not fully legible. No complete hieroglyphic sequence, cartouche, deity figure, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is clearly visible. The surface appearance is consistent with a hard stone (alabaster/travertine-like), matching the catalogue’s description, though the photo does not allow definitive confirmation beyond “stone with pigment/ink markings.”

unclear New Kingdom (Ramesside period) — consistent with catalogue; exact dating cannot be verified from markings alone fragmentary
Materials light-colored stone (travertine/‘Egyptian alabaster’ type)green pigmentblack pigment/inkred pigment
Signs Painted black/green bands (possibly decorative or labeling) ×5
Visible text "Partial red numerals/labeling and partial black/green painted bands; no fully legible hieroglyphic words or cartouches visible."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Partial red numerals/labeling and partial black/green painted bands; no fully legible hieroglyphic words or cartouches visible.

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116275902 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 14.6.301 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 561252 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.