Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Kohl Tube Inscribed for Amenhotep III and Princess Sitamun
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 blue cylindrical amulet with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a blue faience cylindrical amulet featuring intricately carved hieroglyphics. The bright blue color suggests it is made of faience, a glazed non-clay ceramic material popular in ancient Egypt. The hieroglyphics appear to be well-preserved, indicating it might have served a protective or symbolic function.
decorative
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh
Djed
Visible text
"nb tAwy"
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247689 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.910 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544512 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.