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

Offering table, Nefertiti cartouche

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Description

New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353–1336 B.C. Indurated limestone. L. 5.5 × Th. 4.4 × D. 5 cm (2 3/16 × 1 3/4 × 1 15/16 in.). From: Great Temple of the Aten, pit outside southern wall, Amarna (Akhetaten), Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: Petrie/Carter excavations, 1891–92. 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.

Fragmentary Egyptian stone offering-table element carved with hieroglyph-like incisions and part of a cartouche form.

The image shows a single, irregular fragment of carved stone with a roughly rectangular cross-section. One face is worked with shallow incised decoration: two vertical strokes flanking a central element, adjacent wedge-like marks, and a broad horizontal band near the middle. The lower right portion appears to continue a worked field, suggesting a larger offering-table inscription/caption area, but most of the surrounding text and any full cartouche are not preserved in the photograph. No color traces, painted surface, or distinct iconographic figures are clearly visible; the carving appears in light-colored stone with tooling consistent with limestone or similar rock. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The hieroglyphs are present but too fragmentary to read confidently; no clear deity determinatives or legible cartouche name can be securely identified from this image.

decorative New Kingdom, Amarna Period (as catalogued; inscription/cartouche fragment only; exact date uncertain from image alone) fragmentary
Materials stone (limestone/limestone-like; indurated limestone per catalogue)
Signs incised hieroglyph-like strokes (unreadable fragment) ×6

Connections

Royals Nefertiti

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116273476 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 57.180.16 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 549670 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.