Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Pectoral of Mutnefret
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 box with intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions and an elaborate cartouche.
This artifact is a faience box adorned with hieroglyphs and a large central cartouche, possibly indicating royal ownership or dedication. The composition features symmetrical design elements with well-preserved hieroglyphics surrounding the cartouche, which is prominently displayed at the center, flanked by decorative motifs characteristic of Egyptian artistry.
royal
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
basket ×5
reed ×3
horned viper ×2
Visible text
"nDm nb"
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413665 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.906 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544772 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.