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Jar fragment, Amenhotep I

Accession: 21.7.3
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: reign of Amenhotep I
Date: ca. 1525–1504 B.C.
Date range: 1525 BCE – 1525 BCE
Materials: ['travertine (egyptian alabaster)']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Description

Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

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.

Triangular/irregular stone jar fragment with carved incised hieroglyphs and an oval cartouche-like oval enclosing a symbol, shown against a dark background.

The object is a broken, roughly triangular jar sherd with a smooth, pale surface. Across the face are incised linear hieroglyphs arranged in vertical registers. Near the center is an oval containing a raised/outlined form (cartouche-like but not fully clear). Additional small vertical signs extend above and below, with a larger horizontal band crossing the middle of the inscription field. The fragment is displayed on two thin supports; no other figures or iconography are clearly visible beyond the incised script. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

decorative New Kingdom (as catalogued) fragmentary

Materials pale stone (consistent with catalogued travertine/‘Egyptian alabaster’)

Signs Incised hieroglyphic signs (linear vertical and horizontal groupings; central oval with symbol) ×10

Visible text "Unclear/insufficiently legible; appears to include multiple incised hieroglyphs and an oval enclosing a sign, but the Amenhotep I name/cartouche cannot be confirmed from this image resolution."

Connections

Royals Amenhotep I

Cross-references (4)

Wikidata-Q Q116425863 tier-1
Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
Inventory-Number 21.7.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
MET-Object 554481 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.
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.