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

Cowroid Seal-Amulet Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose II

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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 blue faience cowroid-shaped seal-amulett with an incised emblem-like design on one face.

The object is cowroid/bean-shaped and made of blue glazed faience. The face shows incised lines forming a central, roughly circular/rosette-like symbol with radiating or limb-like strokes beneath/around it, and a few additional horizontal/diagonal incisions. The reverse side is not visible in this image. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, throne names, or cartouches are discernible at this resolution; the markings appear primarily as an emblem rather than distinct readable Egyptian script. There is no visible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text.

decorative New Kingdom (per catalogue); exact inscription not legible in image good
Materials faience (blue glaze)

Connections

Royals Thutmose II

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116274189 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 36.3.20 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548966 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.