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Storage jar

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Description

Jar, cartouches. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1425 B.C. Serpentinite. H. 20 cm (7 7/8 in.); diam. 14.5 cm (5 11/16 in.); Lid: h. 1.4 cm (9/16 in.); diam. 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.). From: Tomb of the Three Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1919.

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 dark, rounded storage jar with a narrow neck and a rectangular band of incised painted hieroglyphs or symbols on the front surface.

The object appears to be a squat storage jar (amphora-like form) with a rounded body, a short narrow neck, and a slightly flared rim. The surface is dark gray/black and shows abrasion and pitting. On the front, within a rectangular field, there are carved or painted symbols resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs (including seated or standing figures and an Ankh-like sign). No clear cartouches are visible, and no legible royal titulary can be confidently read from the image. No other text appears to be present. The overall look is consistent with a stone or heavily mineralized jar surface; however, the image alone does not allow confident confirmation of the catalogued material (serpentinite).

decorative New Kingdom (per catalogue; hieroglyphic style unclear from photo) poor
Materials dark stone/mineral surface (exact material unclear from image)
Signs incised/panel hieroglyphs and symbol set ×10
Visible text "Rectangular panel of hieroglyphic signs; individual signs not confidently legible from this image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Rectangular panel of hieroglyphic signs; individual signs not confidently legible from this image.

Connections

Found at Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116274794 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.8.14a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548651 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.