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

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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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.

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.

unclear New Kingdom (as catalogued); inscription readability unclear fragmentary
Materials faienceblue-turquoise glaze
Signs incised/abraded hieroglyphic strokes (unreadable) ×3

Connections

Found at Malqata
Royals Amenhotep III
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.
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