Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Decorative Motif
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, early, Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Steatite (glazed). l. 1.9 cm (3/4 in.); w. 1.2 cm (1/2 in.); h. 0.6 cm (1/4 in.). From: Temple of Hatshepsut, Foundation Deposit 9 (I), Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1926–27. 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.
A small, glazed steatite oval/flattened amulet seal with a turquoise-green decorative design on a light background, photographed front-on.
The object is a cowroid-shaped, flattened oval with rounded ends and a raised rim. The surface appears glazed, with a dominant light green/cream background and a dark turquoise-green motif stamped/painted at the center. The central decorative element looks like a stylized flower or rosette with multiple rounded petals and a central vertical form; surrounding details are too blurred to identify precisely as a specific hieroglyphic or religious symbol. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or non-Egyptian scripts (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) are visible. No royal names or deities can be confidently identified from the motif alone. The photograph does not show any mount or suspension hole with certainty due to the front-on angle and image resolution.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116273211 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 27.3.365 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 549747 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.