Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Fragment of a votive bracelet

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Faience

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.

Small rectangular fragment of turquoise-blue faience with scattered pits and dark inclusions; any decorative relief or text is not clearly preserved in the image.

The object appears as a broken rectangular piece with rounded edges and a mottled turquoise-blue surface (possibly once glazed). The surface is heavily abraded, showing numerous small holes, pitting, and darker specks/patches consistent with weathering or loss of glaze. No clearly readable hieroglyphs, cartouches, or figurative motifs are visible at the provided resolution/lighting. The visible area looks more like a plain faience fragment than a legible inscribed/ornamented bracelet segment, though the specific bracelet design is not discernible.

unclear New Kingdom (Ramesside), unclear from image due to lack of diagnostic marks fragmentary
Materials faience (turquoise-blue glazed surface)

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116442669 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.182.19.5 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 573193 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.