Cowroid Stamp Seal with a Nefer Hieroglyph on the Base
Description
Cowroid, nefer. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Faience. L. 1.5 cm (9/16 in). From: Palace of Amenhotep III, Malqata, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1910–11. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1911.
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.
An oval, glossy faience stamp seal with a raised hieroglyph-like form on one face.
The image shows a small, oval amuletic/cylinder-stamp type object viewed frontally. The surface is glossy and speckled, consistent with glazed faience, and the color varies between greenish-blue and darker green with lighter streaks and patches from wear. On the central area of the face there is a vertical, raised motif resembling a single hieroglyph or sign on the seal face; surrounding background is smoother and less raised. No clear cartouche, royal name, deity figure, or additional text is legible at this resolution. The underside/base is not clearly shown, and the specific shape described by the catalogue as “Nefer” on the base cannot be confirmed definitively from the provided single view. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.
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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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