Tile
Description
Tile, palace of Ramesses II. New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279–1213 B.C. Faience. H. 5.5 × W. 7.3 × D. 2.5 cm (2 3/16 in. × 2 7/8 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.
A roughly shaped, worn Egyptian object with the relief of a horizontal band containing incised/relief strokes resembling carved text or decoration; no clear blue-green glaze is visible.
The image shows a small, irregularly broken piece with a rounded left edge and a flatter right face. The surface has weathering and erosion. On the main face there is a horizontal band made up of closely spaced, shallow incisions/raised lines; above or around the band are indistinct traces of additional relief or carving that cannot be securely read as specific signs. No legible hieroglyphs, royal cartouches, or deity iconography are clearly identifiable at this resolution. The material surface appears stone-like or heavily weathered rather than clearly faience/glazed, though the glaze is not clearly visible in the provided photo.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116439444 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 35.1.330 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 562973 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.