Ring, Prenomen of Amenhotep III
Description
Ring, Amenhotep III prenomen. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Copper. Diam. 2.2 cm (7/8 in). From: Palace of Amenhotep III, House 2.w, Malqata, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1911–12. 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.
Photograph of a small, vertically oriented copper ring with a rounded bezel bearing an oval area of worn design or inscription.
The object is shown isolated against a light background. It has a teardrop/oval outer shape in profile, consistent with a ring bezel, with a central, slightly raised decorative field. The surface is heavily worn and shows greenish corrosion consistent with copper. Within the central field there appear to be faint, darkened markings that could be traces of engraved or stamped hieroglyphic/princely text, but the figures are too eroded to read reliably. No clear cartouche edges or legible prenomen determinatives are visible at this resolution. No additional text (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) is present.
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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.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
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