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

Lotus-Shaped Plaque

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Description

Faience

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.

Blue-green faience plaque shaped like a lotus bud/rounded shield-like form, with worn surface and scattered small inclusions or chips.

The image shows a single small object photographed against a plain light background. The artifact is a cobalt to turquoise blue faience piece with a glossy surface. Its outline resembles a lotus-bud or petal-like plaque: a broad, rounded top with slightly flared sides tapering toward a narrower bottom. The surface appears abraded, with light pitting and small chips; there are no clearly readable incised hieroglyphs, no legible figures, and no clearly defined lotus petals are distinct beyond the overall silhouette. No color pigments beyond the blue faience glaze are visible, and there is no evidence of attached metal, stone, or resin. The photograph does not reveal any royal names/carthouches or inscriptions in Greek/Coptic/Arabic.

decorative New Kingdom, Ramesside (based on catalogue ground truth; image itself does not allow secure stylistic dating) fragmentary
Materials faience (blue-green glazed ceramic)

Connections

Found at Asasif
Royals Ramesses IV

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116388262 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 16.10.26 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 549322 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • 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.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.