Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Kohl Jar Inscribed for Hatshepsut as God's Wife New Kingdom
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose II–Early reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1492–1477 B.C. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster). H. 6.5 × W. 4.8 × D. 5 cm (2 9/16 × 1 7/8 × 1 15/16 in.). Probably from: Upper Egypt, Thebes. Credit: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926.
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- MMA 26.7.1437 PNM text
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Hieroglyphic inscription in a rectangular incised panel is visible, but the individual signs are too unclear/worn to transcribe reliably from this image.
Connections
Royals
Hatshepsut
Cross-references (1)
- PNM-Object pnm:83916836 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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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.