Votive Menat fragment
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Faience. H. 3.8 × W. 3.6 cm (1 1/2 × 1 7/16 in.). From: Hatshepsut Hole, Hathor Shrine, Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1922–23. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1923.
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 small turquoise-blue faience fragment with painted/relief-like markings, likely part of a votive menat ornament.
The object is a broken, oval/rectangular faience fragment with a turquoise-blue surface. The decoration appears as dark outlines and internal marks resembling Egyptian hieroglyphic/ornamental elements; two circular holes are visible near the top (one on the left, one on the right), suggesting attachment/decoration typical of jewelry fragments. A vertical T-like form and curved/looped element near the lower left are visible, but the fragment is too small and damaged to securely match specific hieroglyphs or a definitive figure. No clear cartouche or royal name is discernible. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280400 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 23.3.76 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 559569 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.