Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Foundation deposit brick with name of Ramesses II

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Faience

AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06

Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A faience cartouche featuring an Egyptian royal name.

The artifact is a faience plaque with a vertical cartouche containing hieroglyphs. The cartouche is surmounted by a feathered headdress, a common decorative element in royal depictions. The hieroglyphs are clearly inscribed and include traditional symbols associated with royalty.

royal unclear good
Royals unclear
Materials faience
Signs reed arm

Connections

Materials Faience
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  • 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.