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Offering table, Nefertiti cartouche

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Description

Offering table, Nefertiti cartouches. New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353–1336 B.C. Limestone, sandy to indurated. L. 13.2 × Th. 4.7 × D. 6.5 cm (5 3/16 × 1 7/8 × 2 9/16 in.). From: Great Temple of the Aten, pit outside southern wall, Amarna (Akhetaten), Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: Petrie/Carter excavations, 1891–92. Subject: Cartouches. Credit: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957.

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.

Rectangular limestone offering-table fragment carved in low relief with damaged hieroglyphic bands, including an ovoid cartouche-like sign cluster consistent with royal titulary.

The image shows a long, rectangular stone fragment with rounded edges, carved on one broad face. Along the upper register runs a line of hieroglyphs in shallow relief; the carving is weathered and incomplete, with portions chipped away. Near the left-center there is an oval/looped sign cluster resembling a cartouche enclosure, though the internal signs are too worn to read confidently. No clearly readable full royal names are preserved. The right side continues with additional hieroglyphic strokes and wedges that appear to be part of the same inscription band. No human figures, deities, or offering scenes are visible—only inscription and signs. The object appears consistent in form with an inscribed offering-table/slab from the Amarna period, but the specific reading 'Nefertiti' cannot be confirmed from the visible, damaged text.

religious New Kingdom, Amarna Period (based on catalogue context; inscription too damaged to confirm independently) fragmentary
Royals unknown (cartouche-like inscription present; does not preserve readable 'Nefertiti' in this image)
Materials limestone (sandy to indurated)
Signs cartouche/oval enclosure (damaged; unreadable internal signs) hieroglyphic strokes/wedges (individual signs not reliably readable) ×10
Visible text "Inscription present as a damaged hieroglyphic band including a cartouche-like oval enclosure; internal wording not legible enough to excerpt reliably."

Connections

Found at Amarna (Akhetaten)
Royals Nefertiti

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116273473 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 57.180.5 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 549660 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.