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Fragment of Bowl with Cartouche of Thutmose III

Place of OriginEgypt, Akhetaten (modern Tell el-Amarna), Maru-Aten
Datemid 2nd Millennium BCE
Dimensions4 in. (10.2 cm)
MediumAlabaster
ClassificationArchitectural Elements
Credit LineGift of the Egypt Exploration Society
Object number
1925.672
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DescriptionThis is a fragment of a fine alabaster bowl, smoothly carved and likely originally shallow in form. The fragment bears part of a cartouche identifying Pharaoh Thutmose III, incised into the surface.
Label TextThis alabaster bowl fragment bears the cartouche—the oval name-ring—of Thutmose III, a powerful pharaoh of Egypt's 18th Dynasty. Although Thutmose III ruled over a century before Amarna was founded by Akhenaten, his name appears here on a vessel fragment excavated in Amarna’s Main Town in 1922.

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