Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel

Dish Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose II

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Description

Faience, paint

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 dish fragment with a central black-painted shield-like cartouche containing an Egyptian motif, framed by vertical elements.

The image shows a round, shallow vessel/dish with a glossy turquoise-blue outer glaze and lighter wear/abraded areas. In the center there is black painted decoration forming a rectangular cartouche-like frame or panel with a small emblem near the top (including two tall vertical strokes resembling a sign) and a seated or standing figure-like motif within. The lower portion shows an additional black sign resembling a vertical stroke or hooked element. No clear full throne-name cartouche or surrounding royal titulary is fully legible at this resolution. No additional inscriptions, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text are visible.

decorative New Kingdom (Thutmose II as catalogued; exact identification of the throne name not fully legible in the image) good
Deities unknown
Royals Thutmose II (throne name claimed by catalogue; exact text not clearly readable in image)
Materials faiencepaint
Signs central cartouche-like frame/panel (royal titulary placeholder; exact name not legible) vertical stroke(s) above central panel (possible hieroglyph sign) ×2 figure-like motif inside panel (unclear) lower vertical/hooked sign below panel (unclear)

Connections

Royals Thutmose II

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116276492 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 36.3.9 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 547681 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.