ARTIC-EG
Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · vessel
Jar
Description
<p>This jar was intended as a funerary gift and belonged to: "The one venerated before Anubis, who is within the place of embalming, the Osiris, the scribe Amenhotep." By the New Kingdom, the deceased were routinely identified with the god Osiris and was called "an Osiris." At this time, terracotta vessels were sometimes painted to imitate luxury goods made of glass or stone.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1382' rel='external'>Jar</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>
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 painted terracotta Egyptian jar with two loop handles and banded decoration around the body and neck.
The image shows a complete, front-facing ceramic jar on a neutral background. It has a rounded shoulder narrowing to a cylindrical neck with a flared rim; two small loop handles extend from the lower shoulder to the upper body on either side. The vessel is decorated with multiple horizontal registers: the neck alternates vertical stripes and checkered bands; the upper body contains a frieze of stylized figures and symbols, while the mid-to-lower body shows alternating geometric patterns including hatched triangles and zigzag bands. The lower register includes a wave-like band. The surface appears light-colored with darker paint applied in bands and motifs, consistent with painted terracotta. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or alphabetic scripts are readable at this image resolution; if present, the marks look more like decorative symbols than a specific inscription.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
terracottapaint (dark pigment on light slip)
Signs
decorative symbolic motifs (unreadable) ×15
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
English description
[Translation] One revered by Anubis, who is in the place of embalming, Osiris, the scribe Amenhotep.
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 48.1382 tier-2
- Walters-id 10705 tier-2
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