Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Weight equal to five deben

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Yellow jasper or opal

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.

Rectangular stone artifact with an inscribed cartouche.

The artifact is a smooth, rectangular stone with rounded edges, featuring a cartouche inscribed on its surface. The engraving is typical of Egyptian royal markers, with precise lines suggesting careful craftsmanship. The composition focuses solely on the inscription without additional decoration.

royal New Kingdom good
Royals unknown
Materials limestone
Signs cartouche

Connections

Materials Limestone
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.