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

Fragment of a votive tile with cartouche of Seti 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.

Small fragment of an Egyptian votive tile in faience with a dark, incised/painted horizontal band and traces of hieroglyphic-like decoration along one face.

The object appears as a broken, rounded-corner piece with one broad face showing weathered dark markings arranged in horizontal stripes. The surface color is predominantly greenish-blue with areas of exposed reddish-brown ceramic/firing substrate, consistent with a faience tile fragment. No complete cartouche is preserved; only partial, blocky/rectilinear marks are visible, which could be part of hieroglyphic decoration but are not clear enough to identify specific signs or spell a royal name. No figures of deities or fully legible inscriptions are visible in the provided image. The reverse/other edges are not clearly decorated.

decorative New Kingdom, Ramesside period (as catalogued; exact reign not securely readable from image). fragmentary
Materials faience (greenish-blue glaze)exposed reddish-brown clay/fabric on breaks
Signs unknown rectangular/blocky hieroglyphic-like marks (partial) ×3

Connections

Royals Seti II

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116272666 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.182.19.35 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 550199 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.