Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · vessel

Miniature Vessel with the Titulary of King Nectanebo II

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 2001.95.1. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 2001.95.1
Find spot: Memphis, Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 30
Date: ca. 360–342 B.C.E.
Date range: 360 BCE – 342 BCE
Materials: ['Faience']
Height: 5.3 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Description

Caption: Miniature Vessel with the Titulary of King Nectanebo II, ca. 360–342 B.C.E.. Faience, 2 1/16in. (5.3cm) Other (diameter of rim): 1 7/16in. (3.7cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wunsch Foundation, Inc., 2001.95.1. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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 faience miniature vessel with a vertical band of dark-painted hieroglyphic text (titulary/inscription) on its front.

The image shows a compact, goblet-like miniature vessel with a flared rim and narrow base. The surface is greenish-glazed (faience). On the front face, a rectangular vertical register contains painted dark-blue/black hieroglyphs arranged in columns; adjacent blocks suggest part of a royal titulary. No deity figures are clearly identifiable, and there is no visible cartouche outline in the provided view. The background includes other objects out of focus, but no additional inscriptions are readable. The inscription is present and appears to be hieroglyphic, though individual signs and any specific royal name cannot be confirmed from the resolution and angle.

decorative Late Period (as catalogued); exact reign/signs unclear from image. good

Materials Faience (green glazed surface)Painted pigment on inscription (dark blue/black)

Signs Unidentified hieroglyphic sign(s) in vertical register ×8

Visible text "Unclear hieroglyphic inscription in a vertical register; royal name not reliably legible from this image."

Connections

Found at Memphis

Royals Nectanebo II

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 2001.95.1 tier-2
BKM-Object 4318 tier-2

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
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.