Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · architecture
Mud Brick Stamped with the Name of Meryptah New KingdomSheikh Abd el-Qurna
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
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
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)
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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.