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Ring Fragment with last letter of name Tiy

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Description

Ring fragment, Tiy. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Faience, pale blue. L. 1.6 cm (5/8 in). From: Palace of Amenhotep III, Malqata, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1910–11. 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.

Pale blue faience ring fragment with a small carved/engraved area on the interior edge showing part of a single hieroglyph-like sign.

The image shows a small, curved faience fragment resembling the band of a ring. The surface is predominantly pale blue with mottling and wear, and the lower/left portion includes patchy lighter areas where glaze may be missing. On the inner face (toward the right and center), there is a vertical, dark incised/relief element that appears like part of a single sign or letter, but only a partial form is preserved. No full cartouche or complete name is visible, and there is no clear surrounding inscription beyond this fragmentary mark.

decorative New Kingdom (as catalogued); exact period cannot be independently confirmed from image alone fragmentary
Materials faiencepale blue glaze
Signs partial hieroglyph/letter (unidentified)
Visible text "Only a partial, incised/relief letter-like sign is visible; the remainder of the name (including any “Tiy”) is not preserved clearly enough to quote."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Only a partial, incised/relief letter-like sign is visible; the remainder of the name (including any “Tiy”) is not preserved clearly enough to quote.

Connections

Found at Malqata
Materials FaiencePale Blue Glaze
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.