Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed for the God's Wife Hatshepsut New KingdomDeir el-Bahri
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Steatite (glazed). L. 1.9 cm (3/4 in.); W. 1.3 cm (1/2 in.); H. 0.5 cm (3/16 in.). From: Temple of Hatshepsut, Foundation Deposit 8 (H), Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1926–27. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1927.
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(MET-Object 547664).
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- MMA 27.3.180 PNM textDeir el-Bahri
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Unreadable at this resolution; appears to contain multiple hieroglyphic signs including cross/ankh-like and vertical-stemmed elements arranged in columns.
Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276512 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 27.3.180 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547664 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83916829 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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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.