Handle from a situla?
Description
Vase handle (?). Roman Period or earlier, 600 BC–100 AD. Copper alloy. H. 6.3 × W. 5.1 × Th. 0.4 cm (2 1/2 × 2 × 3/16 in.). From: Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: EEF excavations 1904–05. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1905.
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.
Photograph of an open copper-alloy/bronze U-shaped object fragment with a rounded top and terminals, likely representing a handle element.
The image shows a single fragment of a metal object in a plain light background. The form is an open loop/handle shape with a curved, rounded top and two downward terminals forming a roughly U-shaped silhouette. The surface is dark greenish-brown with patches suggestive of corrosion products (patina) typical for copper alloys. No attached decorative elements, iconography, or epigraphic bands are visible on the fragment itself. A small red/orange marking appears near the upper left portion (likely a catalog/measurement mark rather than ancient text). No legible hieroglyphs or other script are visible.
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.