Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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, rounded stone artifact shaped like a shallow dish with a raised central element and traces of surface wear.
The image shows a roughly circular object viewed from above, resembling a shallow bowl/dish. The interior includes a worn, raised central ridge or mound and a recessed central area, with the rim forming a distinct circular edge. The exterior and rim show tool marks and pitting consistent with erosion or excavation wear. No clearly legible carved decoration, hieroglyphs, or inset relief figures are visible in the provided view. The material surface appears light tan/cream with darker streaks, consistent with pale stone such as travertine/alabaster, though exact identification from the image alone remains approximate.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116435864 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.24 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 559964 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.