Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Faience Ribbed Jar
Description
Faience
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A blue-green faience jar with ribbed texture.
The artifact is a small jar made of faience, a glazed ceramic material, notable for its bright blue-green color. It features a ribbed texture encircling the body, typical of decorative styles used in Egyptian art for both functional and aesthetic purposes. The smooth, slightly tapering neck showcases the high craftsmanship and attention to detail inherent in Egyptian pottery.
decorative
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408949 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.164 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329959 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.