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Fragement from a jar with a label identifying contents as honey

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Description

Jar Label, honey. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Pottery, ink. H. 8.5 × W. 15 × Th. 0.6 cm (3 3/8 in. × 5 7/8 in. × 1/4 in.). From: Palace of Amenhotep III, Malqata, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1916–17. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1917.

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 broken pottery sherd from a jar fragment with a horizontal band of dark ink hieroglyphic signs on the surface.

The image shows two adjoining fragments of a light-colored pottery vessel (cream/tan fabric) lying against a neutral gray background. On the larger fragment and across the join between fragments there is a short, rectangular strip/band of dark pigment containing multiple ink hieroglyphic signs arranged in rows. The signs are partially preserved and include a mix of line-strokes and grouped motifs; exact readings are not fully recoverable from the resolution. No cartouche, royal name box, or clearly identifiable deity determinative is visible. The fragment appears to be part of a labeled container: the ink inscription is consistent with a written contents label, though the specific word “honey” cannot be confirmed visually from the provided image.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom (per catalogue) fragmentary
Materials pottery (jar sherd)ink (dark pigment/hieroglyphic handwriting)
Signs hieroglyphic signs in ink (exact types unclear due to partial preservation) ×15
Visible text "Partial hieroglyphic text in black/dark ink within a band; exact transliteration not reliably legible from the image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Partial hieroglyphic text in black/dark ink within a band; exact transliteration not reliably legible from the image.

Connections

Found at Malqata
Materials Pottery

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116419130 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 17.10.12 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 551905 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.