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Part of a Bowl Inscribed for Amunhotep III and Queen Tiye

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Description

Object Label: When complete, this bowl had several frontal cow-eared female faces flanked by cats. Although in this case both faces and cats were probably intended as symbols of the goddess Hathor, these motifs later came to be related to other goddesses as well. Ritual vessels with such decoration may have held intoxicants, to be ingested during certain festivals for the goddess. Caption: Part of a Bowl Inscribed for Amunhotep III and Queen Tiye, ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E.. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), traces of gold, 11 9/16 × 4 3/16 × 2 11/16 in. (29.3 × 10.6 × 6.8 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, 16.41. (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.

Fragment of an inscribed Egyptian bowl or vessel showing two flanking figures/raised forms in low relief, with a small cartouche-like oval on the right.

The image shows a rectangular fragment of an alabaster-like light stone with weathering and surface loss. In the upper portion, two adjacent raised relief elements appear: on the left, a human/royal figure in profile (partly eroded) with an outstretched arm; on the right, a figure with a distinctive wig/headdress-like shape and a large oval cartouche-like form beneath/near the head. A vertical column of incised or relieved hieroglyphs is visible near the far right edge, though the individual signs are too eroded to read confidently. No legible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. The overall style and presence of a cartouche-like oval and hieroglyphs are consistent with a New Kingdom royal dedication inscription, but the specific names “Amunhotep III” and “Queen Tiye” cannot be confirmed from the readable marks in this photo.

religious New Kingdom (18th dynasty), likely 18th Dynasty dedication/inscription fragmentary
Deities Amun (suggested by catalogue; not legible in image)
Royals Amunhotep III (not legible/confirmable in image)Tiye (not legible/confirmable in image)
Materials light-colored stone (likely alabaster/calcite)possible traces of gold/ochre-like residue (faint, not confirmable)
Signs cartouche-like oval/royal name field (unreadable) vertical column of hieroglyphs (unreadable due to erosion)

Connections

Found at Amarna (Akhetaten)
Deities Hathor
Royals Tiye

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.41 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 3130 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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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.