Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Dummy Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay New KingdomValley of the Kings
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep II, ca. 1427–1400 B.C. Limestone. H. 14 cm (5 1/2 in.). From: Tomb of Queen Hatshepsut-Merytre, KV 42, re-burial of Senetnay, wife of Sennefer, Valley of the Kings, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: Macarios/Andraos excavations, 1900. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1932.
The same text in other collections
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(MET-Object 557556).
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- MMA 32.2.5 PNM textBiban el-Muluk
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 in dark pigment with some red/brown accent; exact wording and any names/cartouches are unclear in the provided image.
Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116432679 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 32.2.5 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 557556 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83911611 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.