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Mud Brick Stamped with the Name of Meryptah

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Description

Brick, Meryptah. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. mud. L. 37.4 × W.18 × H.13.4 cm (37.4 × 18 × 13.4 cm). From: above Mond's house, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Credit: Gift of N. de Garis Davies, 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.

A rectangular mud-brick fragment with a horizontal incised/stamped inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs across one face.

The object appears as a thick, rectangular brick with rough, weathered surfaces. One side shows a band of hieroglyphic signs in raised/pressed form (consistent with a stamp or impression) arranged in a single line. The brick surface is damaged/eroded, obscuring many details of individual signs. No clear figurative elements or iconography are visible. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is apparent.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom (as catalogued; exact reign not fully legible from the image). fragmentary
Materials mud (clay/brick material)
Signs Hieroglyphic signs in a stamped/impressed inscription ×8
Visible text "Hieroglyphic inscription present but too eroded/unclear to reliably transcribe as the name 'Meryptah' from this image alone."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Hieroglyphic inscription present but too eroded/unclear to reliably transcribe as the name 'Meryptah' from this image alone.

Connections

Found at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116386094 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 11.155.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 554316 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.