Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Foundation plaque for a temple dedicated to Hathor / Aphrodite at Cusae
Description
Glass
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 green faience plaque with hieroglyphic inscriptions including royal cartouches.
The artifact is a rectangular green faience plaque featuring intricately carved hieroglyphs. Notable features include multiple cartouches, which are oval with a horizontal line at one end. These cartouches likely represent a royal name. The surface shows signs of wear, but the hieroglyphs remain legible. The composition suggests it may have been used for commemorative or decorative purposes.
royal
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
cartouche ×2
Visible text
"Transcription of visible hieroglyphs"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116282287 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 48.45 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545999 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.
- 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.