Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Handle from a situla? Roman Period or earlierOxyrhynchus (Bahnasa)
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
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.
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- 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.