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

Cowroid Stamp Seal 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.

Blue faience cowroid-shaped stamp seal fragment/individual, inscribed with small incised details on one face.

The object is a small, teardrop/oval cowroid stamp-seal form in turquoise-blue faience. The surface shows scattered beige/light accretions or wear marks. On the central field there appear to be shallow incised lines and rounded/boxy marks resembling hieroglyphic signs, but the exact configuration is not fully legible at this resolution. No clear cartouche outline or throne-name determinative can be confidently identified from the image provided. The opposite face is not visible enough to confirm additional iconography. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No legible inscription excerpt can be transcribed reliably.

decorative New Kingdom (catalogued); exact reign attribution unclear from image. fragmentary
Royals Amenhotep III (throne name) — not clearly legible in the provided image; therefore not confirmable
Materials faience
Signs incised glyph-like marks (unreadable) ×6

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.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.