Finger Ring with Cartouche of Akhenaten
Description
Object Label: Jewelry Glass and faience were both difficult materials for making jewelry. Eighteenth Dynasty artisans frequently created glass reproductions of traditional metal and stone forms. These early glassworkers, still perfecting their skills, often reduced intricate details like inscriptions to simple lines. Late Eighteenth Dynasty faiencemanufacturers produced mold-made rings inscribed with royal names. Because these pieces were too fragile to have been worn, they were most likely distributed as royal keepsakes at state occasions. Caption: Finger Ring with Cartouche of Akhenaten, ca. 1353–1336 B.C.E.. Faience, Diam. 13/16 x Length of bezel 11/16 in. (2 x 1.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.253. (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 dark faience finger ring shown in profile, with a recessed oval bezel containing damaged/indistinct incised decoration resembling a cartouche-like panel.
The image shows a finger ring photographed against a light background. The ring is thick and dark in tone, consistent with glazed faience. On the front, there is an oval bezel or cartouche-like field set into the band; the interior contains incised marks that are too blurred and fragmentary to read confidently as specific hieroglyphs. No clear deity figure is visible, and there is no legible royal name or cartouche text in the photo. The back of the bezel appears smooth with light wear and surface pitting. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The inscription area appears to be the only potential text-bearing field, but the characters cannot be securely identified from this image quality.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.253 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3166 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.
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