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

Fragmentary dish with inscription for Hathor from Peteharsomtous

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Description

Silver

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.

This is a silver bowl fragment with an inscription.

The artifact is a damaged silver bowl with a partially preserved surface. It features an inscription in hieroglyphs. The lettering is typical of Egyptian inscriptions, with clear and precise signs. The overall shape and design suggest it was once a complete, elaborately decorated bowl.

funerary New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials silver
Signs reed ×2 owl
Visible text "tp m pn"

Connections

Found at Dendera
Deities Hathor
Materials Silver

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116280903 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.2.46 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546707 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.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.