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.

A small, rectangular fragment of a blue-green faience object with portions of dark brown painted or incised horizontal bands and a short curved element resembling a hieroglyphic sign fragment.

The image shows a flat, rectangular piece with rounded edges and a light turquoise/blue-green surface typical of faience. The surface includes multiple areas of reddish-brown staining or weathering. On the center-lower portion there is a clustered set of dark brown marks: two roughly horizontal bands with a short vertical or angled stroke near the center, and adjacent to them a small curved, hook-like element above. The marks appear to be either painted hieroglyphic decoration or incised/pseudo-incised lines that have darkened. No clearly readable full hieroglyphs or any royal cartouche are visible. The fragment is too small and worn to confidently identify a specific votive bracelet motif or deity. No modern labels or non-Egyptian scripts are visible.

unclear New Kingdom (Ramesside) — per catalogue; exact date uncertain from image alone. fragmentary
Materials faience (turquoise/blue-green glazed surface)
Signs Unidentified hieroglyphic sign fragment (horizontal bands with hook/curved element)

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116442677 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.182.19.9 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 573197 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • 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.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.