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Drinking Cup

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1425 B.C. Glassy faience, gold. h. 10.2 cm (4 in.); diam. 7 cm (2 3/4 in.). From: Tomb of the Three Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Credit: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A gold-rimmed, marbleized colored ceramic/glassy faience drinking cup (or beaker) with a flared mouth and rounded body, shown isolated against a light background.

The image shows a single small vessel with a flaring, wide rim and an overall beaker/cup profile: the body narrows slightly toward the base and sits on a short foot. The rim appears gilded or metallic gold, and the lower exterior surface also shows a gold-toned band at the base. The main body is decorated with swirling, marbled bands of turquoise/teal, brown/red, cream, and patches of darker color, consistent with a glassy faience marbling or inlaid/polychrome effect. No figures, cartouches, or readable hieroglyphs are visible. There is no visible Greek/Coptic/Arabic script. The object is photographed straight-on, with no inscriptions discernible anywhere on the rim or body.

daily life New Kingdom (per catalogue ground truth; image does not provide independent dating cues) good
Materials gold-toned rim/footglassy faience or glazed ceramic (marbled turquoise/brown/cream coloration)

Connections

Found at Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116246299 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.7.1175 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544860 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.