Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III
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.
A small turquoise-blue faience ring fragment/oval bezel with a recessed, darkened inscribed area containing faint wedge-like hieroglyphic strokes.
The image shows a single oval/rounded ring bezel made of light blue turquoise-colored material with a slightly mottled surface. A recessed oval panel on the face contains dark, worn markings that resemble incised or stamped hieroglyphic signs, but the individual sign forms are too abraded and low-contrast to read confidently. No clear royal cartouche outline (e.g., throne name cartouche) is visible in the provided view. The back/inner band is not clearly shown, and no additional iconography (deities or figures) is distinguishable. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.
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.