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Cartouche plaque of Amenemhat III

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Description

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, reign of Amenemhat III, ca. 1859–1813 B.C. Glazed steatite. l. 0.9 cm (3/8 in). From: Cemetery, debris, Lisht North, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920–22. Subject: Cartouches. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922.

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.

Small, rounded Egyptian cartouche-shaped inscription plaque with a dark-blue/green surface and visible hieroglyphic signs forming a royal cartouche.

The object appears as a small, vertical, cartouche-plaque form with rounded top and a flat-to-slightly indented base. The surface is mottled turquoise/blue-green with darker brown/black background areas, consistent with a glazed or coated steatite appearance. A set of hieroglyphic signs is painted/outlined in lighter yellowish-green strokes across the plaque; the exact reading is not fully legible from the image resolution. No separate figures of deities are clearly depicted—only inscriptional signs within the cartouche shape. There is no visible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text. The object’s general function and format match a cartouche plaque, but the specific royal name cannot be confirmed reliably from this image alone.

hieroglyphic only Middle Kingdom (catalogue-based; inscription not legible enough to confirm independently) good
Royals Amenemhat III (catalogue-based; not confirmable from image resolution)
Materials glazed steatite (catalogue-based; surface color suggests glazing)
Signs cartouche frame/oval with surrounding inscription signs group of hieroglyphic royal-name signs (not confidently readable) ×6

Connections

Found at Lisht
Royals Amenemhat III

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116282296 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 22.1.553 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 557026 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.