Persia Fruit Mold
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Pottery. various. 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.
A circular, gray pottery-like object with a shallow, concave center and a small recessed motif near the rim.
The image shows a single round artifact photographed against a light background. The surface is coarse and light gray, consistent with fired clay or a stone-like plaster coating; the edges are worn and slightly irregular. The object has a shallow central basin, suggesting the inner surface of a mold or container. Near the upper-left/upper-central interior there is a small, raised/indented decorative element resembling a simplified leaf or pointed form, but it is not clear enough to identify as specific hieroglyphs or royal titulary. No clearly readable hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible, and no cartouches are apparent. The overall form (a circular mold-like disk with concavity) is consistent with the catalogue description of a “Persia Fruit Mold,” though the specific “Persia” motif is not clearly legible in this view. No deities are identifiable from the visible design.
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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.
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