Plaque: Cartouche of Nimaatre (Amenemhat III)
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 photograph shows two small oval/rounded-plaque fragments with blue-green painted surface and incised relief-like lines resembling hieroglyphic/cartouche elements.
The image depicts two separate pieces of a small steatite plaque or inlay-like object photographed side-by-side on a light background. Each piece has a rounded-rectangle/oval outline with a thick border. Within the interior, there are dark incised contours and traces of blue-green (possibly pigment) filling some areas. The lower edge of both pieces shows a series of short vertical elements that could correspond to stylized base marks. Upper portions include curved/spiral-like marks, but the remaining details are fragmentary and not sufficient to securely read a complete cartouche or royal titulary. No clearly legible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The scene is not explicitly religious in terms of deities; it appears to focus on royal epigraphic design, likely a cartouche fragment, though exact name identification is not certain from this view.
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- ARTIC-id 133792 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Art Institute of Chicago (Egyptian).
- 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.