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Menat fragment

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Faience. H. 2.4 × W. 2.4 cm (15/16 × 15/16 in.). From: Hatshepsut Hole, Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1922–23. Subject: Hathor. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1923.

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 turquoise-blue faience fragment with a dark vertical band and a few impressed/painted marks on its face.

The object appears to be a triangular/irregular break from a larger faience item. The front surface is coated in a light turquoise-blue color. A darker, nearly black vertical stripe runs along the left side of the visible face. Near the center are small, tan/brown circular and line-like marks that resemble partial hieroglyphic elements, but the composition is too fragmentary to securely identify specific signs. No clear cartouche or royal titulary is visible. No human figures or deities are discernible. The back/edges are broken and uneven, consistent with an archaeological fragment. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

decorative New Kingdom (catalogue ground truth; inscription/signs too fragmentary for independent confirmation) fragmentary
Materials faience
Signs uncertain single sign/mark resembling a small circle and/or O-like element ×2
Visible text "Only partial, unclear sign elements (e.g., an O/circle-like mark and adjacent line element); no full phrase readable."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Only partial, unclear sign elements (e.g., an O/circle-like mark and adjacent line element); no full phrase readable.

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116252024 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 23.3.59 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 575441 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.