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Tile

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Description

Tile, palace of Ramesses II. New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279–1213 B.C. Faience. H. 7.7 × W. 7.5 × D. 2.5 cm (3 1/16 in. × 2 15/16 in. × 1 in.). From: Palace of Ramesses II, Qantir (Piramesse), Eastern Delta, Egypt. Credit: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Edward S. Harkness Gift and by exchange, 1922, 1929, 1935.

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.

Photograph of a small, curved fragment with incised, parallel horizontal grooves, resembling a decorative tile fragment.

The object appears as an irregular, roughly triangular/arched fragment, light tan to beige in color. The surface is dominated by a shallow relief/design consisting of multiple evenly spaced, curved (arc-like) incised/raised lines running horizontally across the piece. No clear colored glaze or faience surface is visible; instead the fragment looks stone-like or weathered ceramic without discernible inscription. The background is a neutral gray studio backdrop; no additional text, figures, or cartouches are visible. No hieroglyphic, Greek, or Coptic/Arabic text is legible in the image.

decorative New Kingdom (Ramesside period), though not directly confirmable from the image alone. fragmentary
Materials unknown (no clear faience glaze visible; appears like unglazed/stone-like fragment)

Connections

Royals Ramesses II

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116439428 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 35.1.315 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 562959 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • 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.