Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Coin of Ptolemy II from a Ptolemaic hoard
Description
Bronze
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.
A single bronze coin showing a detailed male (kingly) head/portrait in relief on one face.
The image depicts one round, dark bronze coin. The prominent relief appears to show a crowned or wreathed male head turned slightly, with abundant hair and a laurel/associated headgear-like form; there are also faint traces of rim text or symbols around the outer edge, but no clearly legible hieroglyphs or alphabetic characters are readable at this resolution. No cartouches are clearly visible, and no Greek letters can be confidently identified. The reverse side is not shown.
royal
Ptolemaic Period (coin, specific ruler unclear from image)
good
Materials
bronzemetal alloy (patinated)
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116249872 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.3.512 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 551805 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.