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Goblet

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1425 B.C. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), gold. h. 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.); diam. 8 cm (3 1/8 in.). From: Tomb of the Three Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1926.

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 gold-rimmed, chalice-like Egyptian goblet carved/formed in a light stone, decorated with a central vertical cartouche-like inscription.

The image shows a single cup (goblet) with a wide bowl tapering to a narrow foot. A thin gold band is visible along the rim of the bowl and along the base/foot. The body appears to be a pale, light-colored stone (consistent with travertine/“Egyptian alabaster”), with a carved vertical register or cartouche-like arrangement of hieroglyphs on the front. The inscription is darkened/outlined relative to the pale surface, but the individual signs are not fully legible at this resolution; they appear stacked vertically, with an enclosing shape consistent with an oval/cartouche or protocol frame and additional small signs above and below. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. No explicit depiction of deities is seen; ornamentation is limited to the inscribed cartouche-like text and the gold bands.

funerary New Kingdom (per catalogue); exact reign unclear from image good
Materials gold (rim and foot bands)light stone body (travertine / Egyptian alabaster)
Signs cartouche-like framed group of hieroglyphs (exact reading unclear) ×6
Visible text "Unclear; vertical cartouche-like framed hieroglyphic text, individual signs not legible enough to transcribe."

Connections

Found at Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116252222 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.7.1434 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 543948 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.