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

Cartouche-Shaped Plaque Fragment

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Description

Glass

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, glass-like fragment shaped like part of a cartouche plaque is shown against a neutral background.

The image depicts a single object fragment with a bright blue/turquoise surface and a curved, cartouche-like outline. One vertical line and faint incised/painted marks are visible on the face, suggesting the remainder of hieroglyphic content, but the signs are too fragmentary to read confidently. The fragment edges show it is incomplete; the lower portion appears thicker with a worn break surface at the back/side. No clear deities are identifiable, and no royal name or cartouche text can be extracted from the visible marks. There is no visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text.

decorative New Kingdom (Ramesside), uncertain due to limited visible inscription fragmentary
Materials turquoise-blue glass (catalogued)
Signs vertical stroke/unclear hieroglyphic mark (partial)

Connections

Found at Asasif
Royals Ramesses IV

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116388279 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 16.10.20 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 549321 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.