Brick stamped with the Names of Amenhotep III

Brick stamped with the Names of Amenhotep III

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This brick has been stamped with the two cartouche names of Amenhotep III. Written in the cartouche on the left is his personal name, Amenhotep, followed by the epithet "ruler of Thebes." On the right is his throne name, Neb-Maat-Re. Each cartouche has two ostrich feathers above it and rests on the hieroglyph representing "gold." The brick is from Amenhotep's festival city of Malqata where he celebrated his three rejuvination festivals (heb-seds).

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brick stamped with the Names of Amenhotep IIIBrick stamped with the Names of Amenhotep IIIBrick stamped with the Names of Amenhotep IIIBrick stamped with the Names of Amenhotep IIIBrick stamped with the Names of Amenhotep III

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.