This is the lid of an ointment ๐ธ๐๐๐ฏ๐ jar that has some beautiful ๐ค hieroglyphs ๐น๐๐ช inscribed on it! One thing that is so interesting about Old and Middle Kingdom cartouches is that sometimes the titles and epithets associated with the pharaoh ๐๐ป are also enclosed in the cartouche, not just the name ๐๐ itself!ย
Letโs read some hieroglyphs ๐น๐๐ช! We are going to start reading from the right, because the directional symbols are pointing to the right!

Here is the full inscription: ๐น๐น๐ค๐๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ช๐๐๐ฑ๐ ๐ ๐๐ธ๐
Now letโs break it down!
๐น – May He Live/Life
๐น๐ค – The Perfect God
๐๐ด๐๐๐๐ – Senwosret
๐ช๐๐๐ฑ – Ptah
๐ – South
๐ – Wall
๐ – His
๐ธ๐ – Beloved
So the full inscription reads: โMay He Live, the Perfect God, Senwosret, Beloved of Ptah, South of His Wall.โ The last part, โSouth of His Wall,โ refers to Memphis ๐ ๐๐ค๐๐๐ด๐, which was the main cult center where Ptah ๐ช๐๐๐ฑ was worshipped ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ข.
It is actually quite hard to have an exact date for this piece because Senwosret ๐๐ด๐๐๐๐, the birth name of the pharaoh ๐๐ป, was used a bunch of times! Thereโs Senwosret I, II, and III who all use this birth name on their monuments! Unless the throne name is also present, we donโt know which Senwosret ๐๐ด๐๐๐๐ this is! Since the piece just has the name ๐๐ Senwosret ๐๐ด๐๐๐๐ on it, we know the jar lid is from the 12th Dynasty, but it could have been made between the dates of 1961โ1840 B.C.E.ย
The symbol underneath the cartouche is the Hieratic symbol for the number 20!