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Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed for the God's Wife Hatshepsut

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Description

Cowroid; Hatshepsut, God's Wife. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, early, Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Steatite (glazed). L. 1.8 cm (11/16 in.); W. 1.3 cm (1/2 in.). From: Temple of Hatshepsut, Foundation Deposit 9 (I), Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1926–27. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1927.

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.

Oval cowroid/seed-shaped amulet seal with a greenish-blue glazed surface, filled with dense dark-green/black incised hieroglyphic figures.

The object is a small, horizontally oriented oval with rounded ends, consistent with a cowroid/seed-shaped amulet. Its surface appears glazed with a greenish-blue and yellowish-brown mottled background. Inside the oval field, multiple incised or impressed signs are visible in a dark pigment/linework; the composition is tightly packed and symmetrical but the individual signs are not clearly legible at this resolution. No clear figurative icon (e.g., a cow head) is distinguishable in this view—only the oval border and a central register of text-like signs. There is no visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text. The image provides no reliable, readable cartouche or royal name.

religious New Kingdom (per catalogue; inscription/signs indeterminate from image) good
Deities unknown
Royals Hatshepsut (requested by catalogue; not legible/confirmed in image)
Materials steatite (glazed)
Signs Unidentified hieroglyphic signs (multiple incised/impressed marks) ×10

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Royals Hatshepsut
Materials Steatite

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116273356 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 27.3.191 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 549711 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.