Vessel fragment
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Pottery, paint. h. 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in); w. 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in); th. 1 cm (3/8 in). From: Palace of Amenhotep III, Malqata, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations. Credit: Gift of James H. Schwartz, 2006.
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.
Painted pottery vessel fragment with a red and white decorative banding and a curved row of red-painted characters on the body.
The object is a small, roughly curved fragment of fired ceramic (porous, brownish fabric) with surviving painted decoration. Along the upper portion, vertical to slightly curved bands alternate between light/white and reddish-brown pigment. Near the lower edge, a red-painted line of incised/painted-looking symbols forms a curved sequence, though individual signs are not clearly legible from the provided image resolution. No legible royal cartouche is confidently identifiable. No figure of a deity is visible; the decoration appears purely ornamental and textual or symbolic in style. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic script is visible.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
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.