Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Foundation deposit brick with name of Ramesses II
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
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- 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.
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